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 …

The neuroscience of working memory capacity and training

C Constantinidis, T Klingberg - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2016 - nature.com
Working memory—the ability to maintain and manipulate information over a period of
seconds—is a core component of higher cognitive functions. The storage capacity of …

Dorsal and ventral attention systems: distinct neural circuits but collaborative roles

S Vossel, JJ Geng, GR Fink - The Neuroscientist, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
The idea of two separate attention networks in the human brain for the voluntary deployment
of attention and the reorientation to unexpected events, respectively, has inspired an …

From behavior to neural dynamics: an integrated theory of attention

TJ Buschman, S Kastner - Neuron, 2015 - cell.com
The brain has a limited capacity and therefore needs mechanisms to selectively enhance
the information most relevant to one's current behavior. We refer to these mechanisms as" …

The cognitive neuroscience of working memory

M D'Esposito, BR Postle - Annual review of psychology, 2015 - annualreviews.org
For more than 50 years, psychologists and neuroscientists have recognized the importance
of a working memory to coordinate processing when multiple goals are active and to guide …

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 …

Parietal and frontal cortex encode stimulus-specific mnemonic representations during visual working memory

EF Ester, TC Sprague, JT Serences - Neuron, 2015 - cell.com
Working memory (WM) enables the storage and manipulation of information in an active
state. WM storage has long been associated with sustained increases in activation across a …

Functions of the human frontoparietal attention network: Evidence from neuroimaging

M Scolari, KN Seidl-Rathkopf, S Kastner - Current opinion in behavioral …, 2015 - Elsevier
Highlights•Frontoparietal network controls selection of spatial and non-spatial information.•
Frontoparietal network contains 18 distinct topographic representations.•Research is …

[HTML][HTML] Neural mechanisms of information storage in visual short-term memory

JT Serences - Vision research, 2016 - Elsevier
The capacity to briefly memorize fleeting sensory information supports visual search and
behavioral interactions with relevant stimuli in the environment. Traditionally, studies …

The dorsal frontoparietal network: a core system for emulated action

R Ptak, A Schnider, J Fellrath - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2017 - cell.com
The dorsal frontoparietal network (dFPN) of the human brain assumes a puzzling variety of
functions, including motor planning and imagery, mental rotation, spatial attention, and …