The “working” of working memory

This review examines the evidence for a neurobiological explanation of executive functions of working memory. We suggest that executive control stems from information about task rules acquired by mixed selective, adaptive coding, multifunctional neurons in the prefrontal cortex. The output of these...

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Autor principal: Miller, Earl K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Les Laboratoires Servier 2013
Materias:
Translational Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3898679/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24459408
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description This review examines the evidence for a neurobiological explanation of executive functions of working memory. We suggest that executive control stems from information about task rules acquired by mixed selective, adaptive coding, multifunctional neurons in the prefrontal cortex. The output of these neurons dynamically links the cortex-wide networks needed to complete the task. The linking may occur via synchronizing of neural rhythms, which may explain why we have a limited capacity for simultaneous thought.
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spelling pubmed-38986792014-01-23 The “working” of working memory Miller, Earl K. Dialogues Clin Neurosci Translational Research This review examines the evidence for a neurobiological explanation of executive functions of working memory. We suggest that executive control stems from information about task rules acquired by mixed selective, adaptive coding, multifunctional neurons in the prefrontal cortex. The output of these neurons dynamically links the cortex-wide networks needed to complete the task. The linking may occur via synchronizing of neural rhythms, which may explain why we have a limited capacity for simultaneous thought. Les Laboratoires Servier 2013-12 /pmc/articles/PMC3898679/ /pubmed/24459408 Text en Copyright: © 2013 Institut la Conférence Hippocrate - Servier Research Group http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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