The bouncer in the brain
- 1 January 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature Neuroscience
- Vol. 11 (1) , 5-6
Abstract
Efficiency variations in the filtering of relevant from irrelevant information could contribute to individual differences in working memory. A new functional imaging study suggests that the basal ganglia act as this filter because activity in this region before stimulus presentation was inversely correlated with unnecessary storage.Keywords
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