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SUBMITTER: Buschman TJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3131328 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Buschman Timothy J TJ Siegel Markus M Roy Jefferson E JE Miller Earl K EK
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20110620 27
Cognition has a severely limited capacity: Adult humans can retain only about four items "in mind". This limitation is fundamental to human brain function: Individual capacity is highly correlated with intelligence measures and capacity is reduced in neuropsychiatric diseases. Although human capacity limitations are well studied, their mechanisms have not been investigated at the single-neuron level. Simultaneous recordings from monkey parietal and frontal cortex revealed that visual capacity li ...[more]