Parietal and Frontal Cortex Encode Stimulus-Specific Mnemonic Representations during Visual Working Memory

Neuron

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 893-905

  Ester, Edward F ^a   Sprague, Thomas C ^b   Serences, John T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; FRONTOPARIETAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL DISSOCIATION; MENTAL TASK; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL ORIENTATION; WORKING MEMORY; BRAIN MAPPING; FRONTAL LOBE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORIENTATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VISION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; ORIENTATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84939513660     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.07.013     Document Type: Article

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