Finding the answer in space: The mental whiteboard hypothesis on serial order in working memory

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue NOV, 2014, Pages

  Abrahamse, Elger ^a   van Dijck, Jean Philippe ^a   Majerus, Steve ^b,c   Fias, Wim ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c Fund for Scientific Research FNRS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Hypothesis; Position marker; Positional models; Serial order; Space; Spatial attention; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EPISODIC MEMORY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; LONG TERM MEMORY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; OSCILLATION; PHONETICS; READING; RECALL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SPATIAL ATTENTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY; WRITING;

EID: 84933677236     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00932     Document Type: Article

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