Competition between items in working memory leads to forgetting

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Lewis Peacock, Jarrod A ^a   Norman, Kenneth A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MEMORY; NEUROLOGY;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ALGORITHM; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLASSIFIER; COMPETITIVE THINKING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NORMAL HUMAN; PLASTICITY; RECOGNITION; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; THINKING; WORKING MEMORY; ADOLESCENT; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; INTELLIGENCE TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84923304968     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6768     Document Type: Article

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