Coherence and recurrency: Maintenance, control and integration in working memory

Cognitive Processing

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-17

  Wolters, Gezinus ^a   Raffone, Antonino ^b,c  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Control of attention; Integration; Maintenance; Prefrontal cortex; Recurrent networks; Synchronization; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; EPISODIC MEMORY; HUMAN; INFORMATION; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THEORETICAL MODEL; WORKING MEMORY;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; BRAIN; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; INTERNEURONS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NERVE NET; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 39849109202     PISSN: 16124782     EISSN: 16124790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10339-007-0185-8     Document Type: Review

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