Revisiting the role of persistent neural activity during working memory

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 82-89

  Sreenivasan, Kartik K ^a   Curtis, Clayton E ^b   D'Esposito, Mark ^c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY ABU DHABI   (United Arab Emirates)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Decoding; FMRI; Forward encoding; MVPA; Prefrontal cortex; Top down; Working memory

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; DECODING;

FMRI; MVPA; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TOPDOWN; WORKING MEMORY;

NEURONS;

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; HUMAN; NERVE STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REVIEW; SENSORY CORTEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL CORTEX; WORKING MEMORY;

DECODING; FMRI; FORWARD ENCODING; MVPA; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TOP DOWN; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEURONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 84892993174     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: 1879307X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2013.12.001     Document Type: Review

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