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The Role of Prefrontal Cortex in Working Memory: A Mini Review

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, December 2015
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Title
The Role of Prefrontal Cortex in Working Memory: A Mini Review
Published in
Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, December 2015
DOI 10.3389/fnsys.2015.00173
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Authors

Antonio H. Lara, Jonathan D. Wallis

Abstract

A prominent account of prefrontal cortex (PFC) function is that single neurons within the PFC maintain representations of task-relevant stimuli in working memory. Evidence for this view comes from studies in which subjects hold a stimulus across a delay lasting up to several seconds. Persistent elevated activity in the PFC has been observed in animal models as well as in humans performing these tasks. This persistent activity has been interpreted as evidence for the encoding of the stimulus itself in working memory. However, recent findings have posed a challenge to this notion. A number of recent studies have examined neural data from the PFC and posterior sensory areas, both at the single neuron level in primates, and at a larger scale in humans, and have failed to find encoding of stimulus information in the PFC during tasks with a substantial working memory component. Strong stimulus related information, however, was seen in posterior sensory areas. These results suggest that delay period activity in the PFC might be better understood not as a signature of memory storage per se, but as a top down signal that influences posterior sensory areas where the actual working memory representations are maintained.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 6 <1%
Germany 3 <1%
United Kingdom 3 <1%
Spain 2 <1%
Colombia 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Poland 1 <1%
Unknown 615 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 134 21%
Student > Master 94 15%
Researcher 89 14%
Student > Bachelor 80 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 39 6%
Other 73 12%
Unknown 123 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Neuroscience 173 27%
Psychology 112 18%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 53 8%
Medicine and Dentistry 37 6%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 20 3%
Other 85 13%
Unknown 152 24%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 73. 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 22 August 2022.
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