The Contribution of Human Superior Intraparietal Sulcus to Visual Short-Term Memory and Perception

Mechanisms of Sensory Working Memory: Attention and Perfomance XXV

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 33-42

  Xu, Yaoda ^a   Jeong, Su Keun ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Information retention; Intraparietal sulcus; Multivoxel pattern analysis; Visual short term working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84957798490     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-801371-7.00004-1     Document Type: Chapter

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