Intracranial recordings reveal transient response dynamics during information maintenance in human cerebral cortex.

ABSTRACT: Despite an extensive body of work, it is still not clear how short term maintenance of information is implemented in the human brain. Most prior research has focused on "working memory"-typically involving the storage of a number of items, requiring the use of a phonological loop and focused attention during the delay period between encoding and retrieval. These studies largely support a model of enhanced activity in the delay interval as the central mechanism underlying working memory. However, multi-item working memory constitutes only a subset of storage phenomena that may occur during daily life. A common task in naturalistic situations is short term memory of a single item-for example, blindly reaching to a previously placed cup of coffee. Little is known about such single-item, effor

SUBMITTER: Noy N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6869725 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature