Attention, short-term memory, and action selection: A unifying theory

Progress in Neurobiology

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 236-256

  Deco, Gustavo ^a   Rolls, Edmund T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Biased competition; Decision making; Executive function; Short term memory; Task switching

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; CALCULATION; CELL POPULATION; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NEUROSCIENCE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGY; SENSORY STIMULATION; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SIMULATION; SYNAPSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 27744454167     PISSN: 03010082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2005.08.004     Document Type: Review

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