Decoding the content of visual short-term memory under distraction in occipital and parietal areas

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 150-157

  Bettencourt, Katherine C ^a   Xu, Yaoda ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRATING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; MALE; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL CORTEX; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SUPERIOR INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL SHORT TERM MEMORY; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84953836906     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.4174     Document Type: Article

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