Brain Signature of Working Memory for Sentence Structure: Enriched Encoding and Facilitated Maintenance

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1654-1671

  Bonhage, Corinna E ^a,e   Fiebach, Christian J ^b,c   Bahlmann, Jörg ^d   Mueller, Jutta L ^a,e  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Center for Individual Development and Adaptive Education   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SHORT TERM MEMORY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84903397507     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00566     Document Type: Article

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