Selective processing of buildings and faces during working memory: The role of the ventral striatum

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 505-513

  Haeger, Alexa ^a,b   Lee, Hweeling ^b   Fell, Juergen ^a   Axmacher, Nikolai ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

fMRI; Distraction; Interference resolution; Striatum; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; BUILDING; CORPUS STRIATUM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; FUSIFORM FACE AREA; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR TEMPORAL CORTEX; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL PLACE AREA; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REPETITION PRIMING; WORKING MEMORY; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADULT; CORPUS STRIATUM; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84922739744     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12808     Document Type: Article

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