Learning-related representational changes reveal dissociable integration and separation signatures in the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Schlichting, Margaret L ^a   Mumford, Jeanette A ^b   Preston, Alison R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; BRAIN; EPISODIC EVENT; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IMAGING METHOD; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LEARNING; MEMORY; NEUROLOGY; SEPARATION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INSULA; INTEGRATION; LEARNING; MALE; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MESENCEPHALON; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRECUNEUS; TEMPORAL LOBE; VENTROLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; ADOLESCENT; MEMORY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84940069146     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9151     Document Type: Article

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