Medial temporal lobe coding of item and spatial information during relational binding in working memory

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 43, 2014, Pages 14233-14242

  Libby, Laura A ^a   Hannula, Deborah E ^c   Ranganath, Charan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

FMRI; Hippocampus; Multivoxel pattern; Parahippocampal; Perirhinal; Working memory

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMODYNAMICS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MULTI VOXEL PATTERN ANALYSIS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION; PATTERN STIMULATION; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STIMULUS; TEMPORAL LOBE; WORKING MEMORY; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84908065914     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0655-14.2014     Document Type: Article

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