Early studies of memory-impaired patients with medial temporal lobe (MTL) damage led to
the view that the hippocampus and related MTL structures are involved in the formation of …

The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (PFC) and posterior parietal cortex (PPC) are two parts of
a broader brain network involved in the control of cognitive functions such as working …

Short-term memory requires communication between multiple brain regions that collectively
mediate the encoding and maintenance of sensory information. It has been suggested that …

Recent studies have shown that selective attention is of considerable importance for
encoding task-relevant items into visual short-term memory (VSTM) according to our …

Background Our brains are capable of remarkably stable stimulus representations despite
time-varying neural activity. For instance, during delay periods in working memory tasks …

Neural noise limits the fidelity of representations in the brain. This limitation has been
extensively analyzed for sensory coding. However, in short-term memory and integrator …

Working memory serves as an essential workspace for the mind, allowing for the active
maintenance of information to support short-term cognitive goals. Although people can …

Traditionally, fMRI studies have focused on analyzing the mean response amplitude within a
cortical area. However, the mean response is blind to many important patterns of cortical …

A stimulus trace may be temporarily retained either actively [ie, in working memory (WM)] or
by the weaker mnemonic process we will call passive short-term memory, in which a given …

Reading sentences involves a distributed network of brain regions acting in concert
surrounding the left sylvian fissure. The mechanisms of neural communication underlying …