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Remember the Future II: Meta-analyses and Functional Overlap of Working Memory and Delay Discounting

Overview of attention for article published in Biological Psychiatry, September 2013
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Title
Remember the Future II: Meta-analyses and Functional Overlap of Working Memory and Delay Discounting
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Biological Psychiatry, September 2013
DOI 10.1016/j.biopsych.2013.08.008
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Michael J. Wesley, Warren K. Bickel

Abstract

Previously we showed that working memory training decreased the discounting of future rewards in stimulant addicts without affecting a go/no-go task. While a relationship between delay discounting and working memory is consistent with other studies, the unique brain regions of plausible causality between these two abilities have yet to be determined. Activation likelihood estimation meta-analyses were performed on foci from studies of delay discounting (DD = 449), working memory (WM = 452), finger tapping (finger tapping = 450), and response inhibition (RI = 450). Activity maps from relatively less (finger tapping) and more (RI) demanding executive tasks were contrasted with maps of DD and WM. Overlap analysis identified unique functional coincidence between DD and WM. The anterior cingulate cortex was engaged by all tasks. Finger tapping largely engaged motor-related brain areas. In addition to motor-related areas, RI engaged frontal brain regions. The right lateral prefrontal cortex was engaged by RI, DD, and WM and was contrasted out of overlap maps. A functional cluster in the posterior portion of the left lateral prefrontal cortex emerged as the largest location of unique overlap between DD and WM. A portion of the left lateral prefrontal cortex is a unique location where delay discounting and working memory processes overlap in the brain. This area, therefore, represents a therapeutic target for improving behaviors that rely on the integration of the recent past with the foreseeable future.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 5 2%
Germany 2 <1%
Canada 2 <1%
France 1 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Unknown 280 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 70 24%
Researcher 41 14%
Student > Master 41 14%
Student > Bachelor 23 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 21 7%
Other 53 18%
Unknown 44 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 124 42%
Neuroscience 36 12%
Medicine and Dentistry 20 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 11 4%
Business, Management and Accounting 7 2%
Other 29 10%
Unknown 66 23%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 May 2020.
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#2,600,250
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#22,254
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Outputs of similar age from Biological Psychiatry
#42
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