Intensive working memory training produces functional changes in large-scale frontoparietal networks

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 575-588

  Thompson, Todd W ^a,b   Waskom, Michael L ^a,b   Gabrieli, John D E ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMANDING VISUOSPATIAL ATTENTION TASK; DORSAL ATTENTION NETWORK; DUAL N BACK WORKING MEMORY TASK; DUAL-TASK PERFORMANCE (TEST); EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FRONTOPARIETAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL TRAINING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY; YOUNG ADULT; ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD; BRAIN MAPPING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FRONTAL LOBE; IMAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

OXYGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEARNING; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; OXYGEN; PARIETAL LOBE; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84959300297     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00916     Document Type: Article

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