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Modelling neural correlates of working memory: A coordinate-based meta-analysis

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Rottschy, C., Langner, R., Dogan, I., Reetz, K., Laird, A.R., Schulz, J.B., Fox, P.T., Eickhoff, S.B.·2012·NeuroImage

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Working memory subsumes the capability to memorize, retrieve and utilize information for a limited period of time which is essential to many human behaviours. Moreover, impairments of working memory functions may be found in nearly all neurological and psychiatric diseases. To examine what brain regions are commonly and differently active during various working memory tasks, we performed a coordinate-based meta-analysis over 189 fMRI experiments on healthy subjects. The main effect yielded a widespread bilateral fronto-parietal network. Further meta-analyses revealed that several regions were sensitive to specific task components, e.g. Broca's region was selectively active during verbal tasks or ventral and dorsal premotor cortex were preferentially involved in memory for object identity and location, respectively. Moreover, the lateral prefrontal cortex showed a division in a rostral and a caudal part based on differential involvement in task set and load effects. Nevertheless, a consistent but more restricted "core" network emerged from conjunctions across analyses of specific task designs and contrasts. This "core" network appears to comprise the quintessence of regions, which are necessary during working memory tasks. It may be argued that the core regions form a distributed executive network with potentially generalized functions for focussing on competing representations in the brain. The present study demonstrates that meta-analyses are a powerful tool to integrate the data of functional imaging studies on a (broader) psychological construct, probing the consistency across various paradigms as well as the differential effects of different experimental implementations.

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Authors
Rottschy, C., Langner, R., Dogan, I., Reetz, K., Laird, A. R., Schulz, J. B., Fox, P. T., & Eickhoff, S. B.
Affiliations
  • The University of Texas at San Antonio Health Science Center (US)
  • Forschungszentrum Jülich (DE)
  • Jülich Aachen Research Alliance (DE)
Corresponding author
Eickhoff, S.B.
Venue
NeuroImage
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2012-03
Volume
60
Issue
1
Pages
830-846
ISSN
1053-8119 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W1997538961
Cited by
951
References
168
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2.96
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • NeuroImage (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • JuSER (Forschungszentrum Jülich) (submittedVersion)
  • RWTH Publications (RWTH Aachen) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Human Brain Project (R01-MH074457-01A1)
  • Helmholtz Alliance on Systems Biology (Human Brain Model)
  • DFG (IRTG 1328)
  • medical faculty of the RWTH Aachen (Rotation Program)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Cognitive Abilities and Testing
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
Keywords
working memory, neural correlates, frontoparietal network, Broca's area, premotor cortex, lateral prefrontal cortex, task sets, workload, executive function, location memory, verbal working memory, brain activation
MeSH terms
Brain, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Memory, Short-Term, Nerve Net

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