2020 / 01

DOI: 10.24075/brsmu.2020.013

ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Cerebral cortex activation during the Sternberg verbal working memory task

Bakulin IS1, Zabirova AH1, Kopnin PN1, Sinitsyn DO1, Poydasheva AG1, Fedorov MV2, Gnedovskaya EV1,2, Suponeva NA1, Piradov MA1
About authors

1 Research Center of Neurology, Moscow, Russia

2 Skoltech, Moscow, Russia

Correspondence should be addressed: Ilya S. Bakulin
Volokolamskoye shosse, 80, Moscow, 125367; ur.ygoloruen@nilukab

About paper

Author contribution: Bakulin IS, Fedorov MV, Gnedovskaya EV, Suponeva NA, Piradov MA — study planning and design; Bakulin IS, Zabirova AH — literature analysis; Bakulin IS, Poydasheva AG — data acquisition; Zabirova AH, Kopnin PN, Sinitsyn DO — data analysis; Bakulin IS, Zabirova AH, Sinitsyn DO, Fedorov MV, Gnedovskaya EV, Suponeva NA, Piradov MA — data interpretation; Bakulin IS, Zabirova AH — manuscript draft preparation; Kopnin PN, Sinitsyn DO, Poydasheva AG, Fedorov MV, Gnedovskaya EV, Suponeva NA, Piradov MA — manuscript draft editing; all the authors — final version of the article preparation.

Received: 2020-01-22 Accepted: 2020-02-22 Published online: 2020-03-01
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