Neural basis of non-conscious visual working memory

NeuroImage

Volumn 91, Issue , 2014, Pages 336-343

  Dutta, Agneish ^a   Shah, Kushal ^a   Silvanto, Juha ^b   Soto, David ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Consciousness; Prefrontal; Vision; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BOLD SIGNAL; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

CONSCIOUSNESS; PREFRONTAL; VISION; WORKING MEMORY;

CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROIMAGING; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; READING; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84896723097     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.01.016     Document Type: Article

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