Working memory delay activity predicts individual differences in cognitive abilities

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 853-865

  Unsworth, Nash ^a   Fukuda, Keisuke ^b   Awh, Edward ^a   Vogel, Edward K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; NEUROSCIENCE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; RECOGNITION; SAMPLE SIZE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY; ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; COLOR VISION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; INDIVIDUALITY; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; REACTION TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; COGNITION; COLOR PERCEPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SPACE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84926197387     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00765     Document Type: Article

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