Does stimulus complexity determine whether working memory storage relies on prefrontal or sensory cortex?

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 76, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1954-1961

  Bancroft, Tyler D ^a   Hockley, William E ^a   Servos, Philip ^a  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Complexity; Prefrontal cortex; Sensory cortex; Short term memory; Working memory

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY STIMULATION; COGNITION; HUMAN; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VISION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; COGNITION; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84892607439     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-013-0604-0     Document Type: Article

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