The distributed nature of working memory

TB Christophel, PC Klink, B Spitzer… - Trends in cognitive …, 2017 - cell.com
Studies in humans and non-human primates have provided evidence for storage of working
memory contents in multiple regions ranging from sensory to parietal and prefrontal cortex …

[HTML][HTML] 'Activity-silent'working memory in prefrontal cortex: a dynamic coding framework

MG Stokes - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2015 - cell.com
Working memory (WM) provides the functional backbone to high-level cognition.
Maintenance in WM is often assumed to depend on the stationary persistence of neural …

[HTML][HTML] Decoding internally generated transitions of conscious contents in the prefrontal cortex without subjective reports

V Kapoor, A Dwarakanath, S Safavi, J Werner… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
A major debate about the neural correlates of conscious perception concerns its cortical
organization, namely, whether it includes the prefrontal cortex (PFC), which mediates …

Persistent spiking activity underlies working memory

C Constantinidis, S Funahashi, D Lee… - Journal of …, 2018 - Soc Neuroscience
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 …

A hierarchy of intrinsic timescales across primate cortex

JD Murray, A Bernacchia, DJ Freedman, R Romo… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Specialization and hierarchy are organizing principles for primate cortex, yet there is little
direct evidence for how cortical areas are specialized in the temporal domain. We measured …

Coexisting representations of sensory and mnemonic information in human visual cortex

RL Rademaker, C Chunharas, JT Serences - Nature neuroscience, 2019 - nature.com
Traversing sensory environments requires keeping relevant information in mind while
simultaneously processing new inputs. Visual information is kept in working memory via …

Bump attractor dynamics in prefrontal cortex explains behavioral precision in spatial working memory

K Wimmer, DQ Nykamp, C Constantinidis… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Prefrontal persistent activity during the delay of spatial working memory tasks is thought to
maintain spatial location in memory. A'bump attractor'computational model can account for …

Revisiting the role of persistent neural activity during working memory

KK Sreenivasan, CE Curtis, M D'Esposito - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2014 - cell.com
What are the neural mechanisms underlying working memory (WM)? One influential theory
posits that neurons in the lateral prefrontal cortex (lPFC) store WM information via persistent …

[HTML][HTML] A source for feature-based attention in the prefrontal cortex

NP Bichot, MT Heard, EM DeGennaro, R Desimone - Neuron, 2015 - cell.com
In cluttered scenes, we can use feature-based attention to quickly locate a target object. To
understand how feature attention is used to find and select objects for action, we focused on …

Decoding reveals the contents of visual working memory in early visual areas

SA Harrison, F Tong - Nature, 2009 - nature.com
Visual working memory provides an essential link between perception and higher cognitive
functions, allowing for the active maintenance of information about stimuli no longer in view …