Why should working memory be related to incidentally learned sequence structures?

Cortex

Volumn 64, Issue , 2015, Pages 407-410

  Martini, Markus ^a   Sachse, Pierre ^a   Furtner, Marco R ^a   Gaschler, Robert ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; REACTION TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

CAUDATE NUCLEUS; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SERIAL LEARNING;

EID: 84923385958     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2014.05.016     Document Type: Note

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