The effect of rehearsal rate and memory load on verbal working memory

NeuroImage

Volumn 105, Issue , 2015, Pages 120-131

  Fegen, David ^a   Buchsbaum, Bradley R ^b,c   D'Esposito, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

FMRI; Memory load; Middle frontal gyrus; Subvocal rehearsal; Sylvian parietal temporal (area Spt); Verbal working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL GYRUS; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NORMAL HUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; SUBVOCAL REHEARSAL RATE; SUPERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; SYLVIAN FISSURE; SYLVIAN PARIETAL TEMPORAL REGION; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY; ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; IMAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84912000267     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.10.034     Document Type: Article

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