Role of prefrontal persistent activity in working memory

The prefrontal cortex is activated during working memory, as evidenced by fMRI results in human studies and neurophysiological recordings in animal models. Persistent activity during the delay period of working memory tasks, after the offset of stimuli that subjects are required to remember, has tra...

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Main Authors: Mitchell R Riley, Christos eConstantinidis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnsys.2015.00181/full