Prefrontal cortex activation during story encoding/ retrieval: A multi-channel functional near-infrared spectroscopy study

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Basso Moro, Sara ^a   Cutini, Simone ^b   Ursini, Maria Laura ^a   Ferrari, Marco ^a   Quaresima, Valentina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cortical oxygenation; Encoding; Functional near infrared spectroscopy; Prefrontal cortex; Retrieval; Verbal working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LOGICAL MEMORY TEST; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY TEST; MENTAL TASK; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; STORYTELLING; TASK PERFORMANCE; WECHSLER MEMORY SCALE;

EID: 84945278449     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00925     Document Type: Article

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