Electrophysiological evidence for enhanced representation of food stimuli in working memory

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 233, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 519-528

  Rutters, Femke ^a,b   Kumar, Sanjay ^c   Higgs, Suzanne ^a   Humphreys, Glyn W ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Food and non food cues; Long latency ERPs; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; FOOD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; STIMULUS; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED RESPONSE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TIME FACTOR; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FOOD; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME FACTORS; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84921028719     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-014-4132-5     Document Type: Article

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