Persistent activity in the prefrontal cortex during working memory.

By Clayton E. Curtis, Mark D'Esposito. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2003

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Measuring functional connectivity during distinct stages of a cognitive task (2004, background): “…prefrontal and parietal cortices interact with posterior visual association areas during the delay period to keep behaviorally relevant perceptual representations active when they are no longer present in the environment (Curtis and D'Esposito, 2003a; Fuster, 1997; Miller and Cohen, 2001).”
Beyond priming effects: The role of positive affect and discrepancies in implicit processes of motivation and goal pursuit (2005, background): “An important function for which goal pursuit is generally thought to require working memory is the monitoring of goal discrepancies and goal attainment (Baddeley, 1999; Curtis & D’Esposito, 2003; Shah & Miyake, 1999).”
Working Memory Maintenance Contributes to Long-term Memory Formation: Neural and Behavioral Evidence (2005, background): “In such studies, sustained neural responses observed during the memory delay are typically interpreted to reflect neural correlates of a unitary WM maintenance process (Curtis & D’Esposito, 2003).”
Capacity limits of information processing in the brain. (2005, background): “Although the localization of VSTM storage capacity limitations to posterior cortical regions is consistent with recent models suggesting that VSTM stores are not located in frontal/prefrontal cortex [44, 45 ], it is also not inconsistent with the involvement of these anterior brain regions in visual”
Brain network dynamics are hierarchically organized in time (2017, background): “This relates to, and can potentially complement, current results on the persistence of activity in specific areas of the brain (31) to the whole brain.”
Neural Evidence for a Distinction Between Short-Term Memory and the Focus of Attention (2011, positive): “…in extracellular (Fuster & Alexander, 1971; Kubota & Niki, 1971), electroencephalographic (Vogel, McCollough,&Machizawa, 2005), andhemodynamic (Curtis & DʼEsposito, 2003; Haxby, Petit, Ungerleider, & Courtney, 2000; Courtney, Ungerleider, Keil, & Haxby, 1997) recordings of animals and humans.”
Brain activity at rest: a multiscale hierarchical functional organization. (2011, background): “visual information (Curtis 2006; Curtis and D’Esposito 2003).”
Delay-period Activity in the Prefrontal Cortex: One Function Is Sensory Gating (2005, background): “For extensive reviews of this question, see Curtis and D’Esposito (2003) and Passingham and Sakai (2004).”