The contribution of the human posterior parietal cortex to episodic memory

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 183-192

  Sestieri, Carlo ^a   Shulman, Gordon L ^b   Corbetta, Maurizio ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMIC MODEL; ATTENTION; BOLD SIGNAL; DECISION MAKING; EPISODIC MEMORY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PERCEPTUAL ATTENTION; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOPOGRAPHY; ANIMAL; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBELLUM; IMAGE PROCESSING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBELLUM; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MEMORY, EPISODIC; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 85013243648     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn.2017.6     Document Type: Review

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