Functional organization of spatial and nonspatial working memory processing within the human lateral frontal cortex |
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Authors: | AM Owen CE Stern RB Look I Tracey BR Rosen M Petrides |
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Affiliation: | Medical Research Council Applied Psychology Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge, CB2 2EF, United Kingdom. adrian.owen@mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk |
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Abstract: | The present study used functional magnetic resonance imaging to demonstrate that performance of visual spatial and visual nonspatial working memory tasks involve the same regions of the lateral prefrontal cortex when all factors unrelated to the type of stimulus material are appropriately controlled. These results provide evidence that spatial and nonspatial working memory may not be mediated, respectively, by mid-dorsolateral and mid-ventrolateral regions of the frontal lobe, as widely assumed, and support the alternative notion that specific regions of the lateral prefrontal cortex make identical executive functional contributions to both spatial and nonspatial working memory. |
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