Age group and individual differences in attentional orienting dissociate neural mechanisms of encoding and maintenance in visual STM

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 864-877

  Shimi, Andria ^a   Kuo, Bo Cheng ^b   Astle, Duncan E ^c   Nobre, Anna C ^a   Scerif, Gaia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTIONAL BIAS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CHILD; CONNECTOME; DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGING; ATTENTION; BRAIN; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORIENTATION; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84896886969     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00526     Document Type: Article

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