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SUBMITTER: Shrager Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2426968 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Shrager Yael Y Levy Daniel A DA Hopkins Ramona O RO Squire Larry R LR
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 20080401 18
Working memory has historically been viewed as an active maintenance process that is independent of long-term memory and independent of the medial temporal lobe. However, impaired performance across brief time intervals has sometimes been described in amnesic patients with medial temporal lobe damage. These findings raise a fundamental question about how to know when performance depends on working memory and when the capacity for working memory has been exceeded and performance depends on long-t ...[more]