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Prefrontal cortex and basal ganglia control access to working memory
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Our capacity to store information in working memory might be determined by the degree to which only relevant information is remembered. The question remains as to how this selection of relevant items to be remembered is accomplished. Here we show that activity in the prefrontal cortex and basal ganglia preceded the filtering of irrelevant information and that activity, particularly in the globus pallidus, predicted the extent to which only relevant information is stored. The preceding frontal and basal ganglia activity were also associated with inter-individual differences in working memory capacity. These findings reveal a mechanism by which frontal and basal ganglia activity exerts attentional control over access to working memory storage in the parietal cortex in humans, and makes an important contribution to inter-individual differences in working memory capacity.
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Metadata
- Authors
- McNab, F., & Klingberg, T.
- Affiliations
- Karolinska Institutet (SE)
- Corresponding author
- Klingberg, Torkel
- Venue
- Nature Neuroscience
- Published
- 2007-12-09
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 103-107
- ISSN
- 1097-6256 (ISSN-L)
- 1546-1726
- OpenAlex
- W1964320082
- Cited by
- 989
- References
- 31
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 21.88
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- University of Birmingham Research Portal (University of Birmingham) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse
- 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 › Neural dynamics and brain function
- Keywords
- working memory, prefrontal cortex, basal ganglia, globus pallidus, attentional control, information filtering, individual differences, working memory capacity, parietal cortex, neural activity prediction
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Basal Ganglia, Brain Mapping, Female, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Memory, Short-Term, Neuropsychological Tests, Oxygen, Photic Stimulation, Psychomotor Performance, Prefrontal Cortex
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