Working memory is characterized by neural activity that persists during the retention interval
of delay tasks. Despite the ubiquity of this delay activity across tasks, species and …

A commonly observed neural correlate of working memory is firing that persists after the
triggering stimulus disappears. Substantial effort has been devoted to understanding the …

Working memory maintains information so that it can be used in complex cognitive tasks. A
key challenge for this system is to maintain relevant information in the face of task-irrelevant …

Theories of working memory typically assume that information is maintained via persistent
neural activity. By contrast, Lundqvist et al. report that single-trial delay activity is actually …

Working memory (WM) maintains task-relevant information in a state ready for processing.
While traditional theories assume that sustained neuronal activity is responsible for WM, the …

Persistent spiking has been thought to underlie working memory (WM). However, virtually all
of the evidence for this comes from studies that averaged spiking across time and across …

Persistent activity generated in the PFC during the delay period of working memory tasks
represents information about stimuli held in memory and determines working memory …

We conducted two fMRI studies to investigate the sensitivity of delay-period activity to
changes in memory load during a delayed-recognition task for faces. In Experiment 1, each …

Cognitive neuroscience research on working memory has been largely motivated by a
standard model that arose from the melding of psychological theory with neuroscience data …

A prominent account of prefrontal cortex (PFC) function is that single neurons within the PFC
maintain representations of task-relevant stimuli in working memory. Evidence for this view …