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SUBMITTER: Ester EF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4545683 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ester Edward F EF Sprague Thomas C TC Serences John T JT
Neuron 20150806 4
Working memory (WM) enables the storage and manipulation of information in an active state. WM storage has long been associated with sustained increases in activation across a network of frontal and parietal cortical regions. However, recent evidence suggests that these regions primarily encode information related to general task goals rather than feature-selective representations of specific memoranda. These goal-related representations are thought to provide top-down feedback that coordinates ...[more]