Accuracy and confidence of visual short-term memory do not go hand-in-hand: Behavioral and neural dissociations

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Bona, Silvia ^a,b,c   Silvanto, Juha ^d  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTING RESPONSE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RESPONSE TIME; SHAM PROCEDURE; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY; BEHAVIOR; ELECTROSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BEHAVIOR; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899712328     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090808     Document Type: Article

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