'Activity-silent' working memory in prefrontal cortex: a dynamic coding framework. Issue 7 (July 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Stokes, Mark G.
• Is Part Of: Trends in cognitive sciences. Volume 19:Issue 7(2015)
• Page Start: 394
• Page End: 405
• Publication Date: 2015-07
• Subjects: Cognitive science -- Periodicals; Cognitive neuroscience -- Periodicals; 153.05
• DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2015.05.004
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1364-6613

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="author-highlights" id="abs0005"> <title id="sect0005">Highlights</title> <sec> <p id="spar0005"> <list id="lis0005"> <list-item id="lsti0005"> <label></label> <p id="par0005">WM is thought to depend on persistent maintenance of stationary activity states.</p> </list-item> <list-item id="lsti0010"> <label></label> <p id="par0010">However, population-level analyses reveal that brain activity is highly dynamic.</p> </list-item> <list-item id="lsti0015"> <label></label> <p id="par0015">Accumulating evidence implicates activity-silent neural states for WM.</p> </list-item> <list-item id="lsti0020"> <label></label> <p id="par0020">Dynamic coding suggests that WM is encoded in patterns of functional connectivity.</p> </list-item> </list> </p> </sec> </abstract>