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SUBMITTER: Davis SW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6292901 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Davis S W SW Crowell C A CA Beynel L L Deng L L Lakhlani D D Hilbig S A SA Lim W W Nguyen D D Peterchev A V AV Luber B M BM Lisanby S H SH Appelbaum L G LG Cabeza R R
Scientific reports 20181213 1
Working memory (WM) is assumed to consist of a process that sustains memory representations in an active state (maintenance) and a process that operates on these activated representations (manipulation). We examined evidence for two distinct, concurrent cognitive functions supporting maintenance and manipulation abilities by testing brain activity as participants performed a WM alphabetization task. Maintenance was investigated by varying the number of letters held in WM and manipulation by vary ...[more]