Parietal and early visual cortices encode working memory content across mental transformations

NeuroImage

Volumn 106, Issue , 2015, Pages 198-206

  Christophel, Thomas B ^a   Cichy, Radoslaw M ^b   Hebart, Martin N ^a,c,d   Haynes, John Dylan ^a,c  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

FMRI; Mental rotation; Multivariate analyses; Short term memory; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BILATERAL POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; BOLD SIGNAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SECONDARY VISUAL CORTEX; STRIATE CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL AREA V3; VISUAL WORKING MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY; BRAIN MAPPING; IMAGINATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PARIETAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84920132589     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.11.018     Document Type: Article

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