Holding Multiple Items in Short Term Memory: A Neural Mechanism

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Rolls, Edmund T ^a   Dempere Marco, Laura ^a,b   Deco, Gustavo ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDROMIC STIMULATION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL POPULATION; CELL STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPIKE WAVE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER);

EID: 84876162772     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061078     Document Type: Article

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