Executive control processes underlying multi-item working memory

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 876-883

  Lara, Antonio H ^a,b   Wallis, Jonathan D ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; RHESUS MONKEY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84901682174     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.3702     Document Type: Article

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