Effects of load and maintenance duration on the time course of information encoding and retrieval in working memory: From perceptual analysis to post-categorization processes

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 1 APR, 2014, Pages

  Pinal, Diego ^a   Zurrón, Montserrat ^a   Díaz, Fernando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Delayed match to sample; ELORETA; Encoding; Event related potentials; Maintenance duration; Memory load; Retrieval; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; SLOW BRAIN WAVE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; WORKING MEMORY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84897384139     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00165     Document Type: Article

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