short term memory

Summary

Summary: Temporary storage of information for a few seconds to hours, as opposed to long-term memory which refers to material stored for days, years, or a lifetime.

Top Publications

  1. ncbi Within-subject comparison of the subjective and psychomotor effects of a gaseous anesthetic and two volatile anesthetics in healthy volunteers
    Nancy J Beckman
    Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, The University of Chicago, 5841 S. Maryland Avenue, MC 4028, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
    Drug Alcohol Depend 81:89-95. 2006
  2. ncbi Cognitive performance in long-term abstinent alcoholic individuals
    George Fein
    Neurobehavioral Research Inc, Corte Madera, California 94925, USA
    Alcohol Clin Exp Res 30:1538-44. 2006
  3. ncbi The magical number 4 in short-term memory: a reconsideration of mental storage capacity
    N Cowan
    Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
    Behav Brain Sci 24:87-114; discussion 114-85. 2001
  4. ncbi Working memory: looking back and looking forward
    Alan Baddeley
    Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK
    Nat Rev Neurosci 4:829-39. 2003
  5. ncbi The capacity of visual working memory for features and conjunctions
    S J Luck
    Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242 1407, USA
    Nature 390:279-81. 1997
  6. ncbi Storage and executive processes in the frontal lobes
    E E Smith
    Department of Psychology, Mental Health Research Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 1109, USA
    Science 283:1657-61. 1999
  7. ncbi Temporal dynamics of brain activation during a working memory task
    J D Cohen
    Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
    Nature 386:604-8. 1997
  8. ncbi Prefrontal cortex and basal ganglia control access to working memory
    Fiona McNab
    Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Stockholm Brain Institute, Karolinska Institutet, MR Centrum, Stockholm, Sweden
    Nat Neurosci 11:103-7. 2008
  9. ncbi Neuroimaging studies of working memory: a meta-analysis
    Tor D Wager
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
    Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 3:255-74. 2003
  10. ncbi The capacity of visual short-term memory is set both by visual information load and by number of objects
    G A Alvarez
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    Psychol Sci 15:106-11. 2004

Research Grants

  1. Memory, Thiamine Levels, and Brain Structure in Heart Failure
    MARY ANN WOO; Fiscal Year: 2010
  2. Memory, Thiamine Levels, and Brain Structure in Heart Failure
    Mary Woo; Fiscal Year: 2009
  3. CRCNS: Gamma Rhythms and Cell Assemblies
    Nancy Kopell; Fiscal Year: 2009
  4. CRCNS: Gamma Rhythms and Cell Assemblies
    Nancy Kopell; Fiscal Year: 2010
  5. CRCNS: Gamma Rhythms and Cell Assemblies
    Nancy Kopell; Fiscal Year: 2010
  6. NEURAL MECHANISMS OF CUTANEOUS SPATIAL INTEGRATION
    Esther P Gardner; Fiscal Year: 2010
  7. Mechanisms of Ubiquitin Trafficking in Neurons
    Marie W Wooten; Fiscal Year: 2010
  8. NE Signal Transduction in Classical Conditioning
    Paula Bickford; Fiscal Year: 2007
  9. NE Signal Transduction in Classical Conditioning
    Paula Bickford; Fiscal Year: 2009
  10. The Functional Neurobiology of Cannabinoids in Brain
    EDWARD FRENCH; Fiscal Year: 2006

Detail Information

Publications307 found, 100 shown here

  1. ncbi Within-subject comparison of the subjective and psychomotor effects of a gaseous anesthetic and two volatile anesthetics in healthy volunteers
    Nancy J Beckman
    Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, The University of Chicago, 5841 S. Maryland Avenue, MC 4028, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
    Drug Alcohol Depend 81:89-95. 2006
    ..These results are consistent with the drugs' putative receptor mechanisms of action and confirm Balster's classification of the volatile anesthetics into a class distinct from N2O...
  2. ncbi Cognitive performance in long-term abstinent alcoholic individuals
    George Fein
    Neurobehavioral Research Inc, Corte Madera, California 94925, USA
    Alcohol Clin Exp Res 30:1538-44. 2006
    ..We examined the association of neurocognitive variables with age, duration of abstinence, alcohol use measures, and the density of a family history of problem drinking...
  3. ncbi The magical number 4 in short-term memory: a reconsideration of mental storage capacity
    N Cowan
    Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
    Behav Brain Sci 24:87-114; discussion 114-85. 2001
    ..Reasons why pure capacity estimates fall within a narrow range are discussed and a capacity limit for the focus of attention is proposed...
  4. ncbi Working memory: looking back and looking forward
    Alan Baddeley
    Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK
    Nat Rev Neurosci 4:829-39. 2003
  5. ncbi The capacity of visual working memory for features and conjunctions
    S J Luck
    Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242 1407, USA
    Nature 390:279-81. 1997
    ....
  6. ncbi Storage and executive processes in the frontal lobes
    E E Smith
    Department of Psychology, Mental Health Research Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 1109, USA
    Science 283:1657-61. 1999
    ..Two of the fundamental executive processes are selective attention and task management. Both processes activate the anterior cingulate and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex...
  7. ncbi Temporal dynamics of brain activation during a working memory task
    J D Cohen
    Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
    Nature 386:604-8. 1997
    ..We used the temporal resolution of this technique to examine the dynamics of regional activation, and to show that prefrontal cortex along with parietal cortex appears to play a role in active maintenance...
  8. ncbi Prefrontal cortex and basal ganglia control access to working memory
    Fiona McNab
    Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Stockholm Brain Institute, Karolinska Institutet, MR Centrum, Stockholm, Sweden
    Nat Neurosci 11:103-7. 2008
    ....
  9. ncbi Neuroimaging studies of working memory: a meta-analysis
    Tor D Wager
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
    Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 3:255-74. 2003
    ..Finally, we consider a potential fourth executive function: selective attention to features of a stimulus to be stored in WM, which leads to increased probability of activating the medial prefrontal cortex (BA 32) in storage tasks...
  10. ncbi The capacity of visual short-term memory is set both by visual information load and by number of objects
    G A Alvarez
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    Psychol Sci 15:106-11. 2004
    ..Thus, both the visual information load and number of objects impose capacity limits on visual short-term memory...
  11. ncbi Frontal lobes and human memory: insights from functional neuroimaging
    P C Fletcher
    Research Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge University, Addenbrooke s Hospital, Cambridge, UK
    Brain 124:849-81. 2001
    ..We expect that the neuroimaging techniques will provide an important part of this enterprise...
  12. ncbi Complexity of prefrontal cortical dysfunction in schizophrenia: more than up or down
    Joseph H Callicott
    Clinical Brain Disorders Branch, NIMH NIH, Bldg 10, Rm 4D 20, MSC 1389, Bethesda, MD 20892 1389, USA
    Am J Psychiatry 160:2209-15. 2003
    ..The authors' goal was to explore this phenomenon...
  13. ncbi Phase-coupling of theta-gamma EEG rhythms during short-term memory processing
    B Schack
    Institute of Medical Statistics, Computer Science and Documentation, University of Jena, Jahnstr 3, D 07740, Jena, Germany
    Int J Psychophysiol 44:143-63. 2002
    ..This finding is interpreted as an EEG aspect of the functional linking between the prefrontal areas and the G.cinguli (as part of the limbic system), which are both extremely important for memory functions...
  14. ncbi Impaired set-shifting and dissociable effects on tests of spatial working memory following the dopamine D2 receptor antagonist sulpiride in human volunteers
    Mitul A Mehta
    Department of Psychiatry, Level E4, Addenbrooke s Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 2QQ, UK
    Psychopharmacology (Berl) 176:331-42. 2004
    ..These include working memory and set-shifting deficits. Theories of DA function have predicted that distraction or impaired switching may be important determinants of such deficits...
  15. ncbi Under the curve: critical issues for elucidating D1 receptor function in working memory
    G V Williams
    Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, 300 George Street, Suite 901, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
    Neuroscience 139:263-76. 2006
    ..If we look under the bell-shaped curve of prefrontal dopamine function, it is the relationship between neuromodulation and cognitive function that promises to bridge our knowledge between molecule and mind...
  16. ncbi Flexible, capacity-limited activity of posterior parietal cortex in perceptual as well as visual short-term memory tasks
    Daniel J Mitchell
    MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK
    Cereb Cortex 18:1788-98. 2008
    ..The differential influence of item load across perceptual tasks is consistent with task requirements affecting the form of these representations...
  17. ncbi Visual working memory represents a fixed number of items regardless of complexity
    Edward Awh
    University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403 1227, USA
    Psychol Sci 18:622-8. 2007
    ..Finally, a correlational analysis suggested a two-factor model of working memory ability, in which the number and resolution of representations in working memory correspond to distinct dimensions of memory ability...
  18. ncbi Gamma amplitudes are coupled to theta phase in human EEG during visual perception
    Tamer Demiralp
    Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Department of Physiology, Turkey
    Int J Psychophysiol 64:24-30. 2007
    ..Instead of theta phase modulating gamma amplitude, it is also conceivable that focal gamma activity needs to be downsampled to theta activity, before it can interact with more distant brain regions...
  19. ncbi Working memory as an emergent property of the mind and brain
    B R Postle
    Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin Madison, 1202 West Johnson Street, Madison, WI 53726, USA
    Neuroscience 139:23-38. 2006
    ..Evidence from behavioral, neuropsychological, electrophysiological, and neuroimaging studies, from monkeys and humans, is considered, as is the question of how to interpret delay-period activity in the prefrontal cortex...
  20. ncbi Functional MRI studies of spatial and nonspatial working memory
    M D'ESPOSITO
    Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
    Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 7:1-13. 1998
    ..4 (1994) 207-211], a reconsideration of the previous imaging literature data suggested that a dorsal/ventral subdivision of prefrontal cortex may depend upon the type of processing performed upon the information held in working memory...
  21. ncbi When loading working memory reduces distraction: behavioral and electrophysiological evidence from an auditory-visual distraction paradigm
    Iria SanMiguel
    University of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
    J Cogn Neurosci 20:1131-45. 2008
    ..Moreover, as these results contradict predictions of the load theory of selective attention and cognitive control, it is suggested that the WM load effects on distraction depend on the nature of the distractor-target relationships...
  22. ncbi Medial temporal lobe activity predicts successful relational memory binding
    Deborah E Hannula
    Center for Neuroscience, University of California, Davis, California 95618, USA
    J Neurosci 28:116-24. 2008
    ..These results indicate that the hippocampus and related MTL structures contribute to successful encoding and retrieval of relational information in visual short-term memory...
  23. ncbi Recruitment of parvalbumin-positive interneurons determines hippocampal function and associated behavior
    Elke C Fuchs
    Department of Clinical Neurobiology, University Hospital of Neurology, IZN, Im Neuenheimer Feld 364, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
    Neuron 53:591-604. 2007
    ..These findings directly show the effects of insufficient recruitment of fast-spiking cells at the network and behavioral level and demonstrate the role of this subpopulation for working and episodic-like memory...
  24. ncbi Maintenance of multiple working memory items by temporal segmentation
    O Jensen
    Radboud University Nijmegen, F C Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Kapitelweg 29, 6525 EN Nijmegen, The Netherlands
    Neuroscience 139:237-49. 2006
    ..The theta/gamma mechanism has also received support from a large set of electrophysiological findings, however, more experimental work is required to further substantiate or falsify the model...
  25. ncbi Directional signals in the prefrontal cortex and in area MT during a working memory for visual motion task
    Daniel Zaksas
    Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Department of Brain and Cognitive Science, and Center for Visual Science, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14642, USA
    J Neurosci 26:11726-42. 2006
    ..PFC neurons reflect task-related information about visual motion and represent decisions that may be based, in part, on the comparison in MT between the remembered sample and test...
  26. ncbi Stimulus-specific delay activity in human primary visual cortex
    John T Serences
    Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 0109, USA
    Psychol Sci 20:207-14. 2009
    ....
  27. ncbi Restricted and regulated overexpression reveals calcineurin as a key component in the transition from short-term to long-term memory
    I M Mansuy
    Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York 10032, USA
    Cell 92:39-49. 1998
    ..Our behavioral results suggest that calcineurin has a role in the transition from short- to long-term memory, which correlates with a novel intermediate phase of LTP...
  28. ncbi Effects of cytotoxic hippocampal lesions in mice on a cognitive test battery
    Robert M J Deacon
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, UK
    Behav Brain Res 133:57-68. 2002
    ..These results are largely consistent with findings in hippocampal lesioned rats on the same or similar tasks, and reflect a major impairment of spatial cognition, with relative sparing of non-spatial task performance...
  29. ncbi Striatal contributions to working memory: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study in humans
    Simon J G Lewis
    Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair, Forvie Site, Addenbrooke s Hospital, Cambridge, CB2 2PY, UK
    Eur J Neurosci 19:755-60. 2004
    ..These results suggest an essential and specific role for the caudate nucleus in executive function, which may underlie the cognitive disturbances observed in frontostriatal neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's disease...
  30. ncbi Electrophysiological measures of maintaining representations in visual working memory
    Andrew W McCollough
    University of Oregon, Eugene 97403 1227, USA
    Cortex 43:77-94. 2007
    ..Together, these results appear to indicate an electrophysiological index of the maintained representations in visual WM...
  31. ncbi Transient and sustained activity in a distributed neural system for human working memory
    S M Courtney
    Section on Functional Brain Imaging, Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 1366, USA
    Nature 386:608-11. 1997
    ....
  32. ncbi The working memory networks of the human brain
    David E J Linden
    Wolfson Centre of Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience, School of Psychology, University of Wales Bangor, North Wales Clinical School, Bangor, Wales
    Neuroscientist 13:257-67. 2007
    ..Finally, the author highlights open questions for cognitive neuroscience research of working memory, such as that of the mechanisms for integrating different types of content (binding) or those providing the link to long-term memory...
  33. ncbi Working memory maintenance contributes to long-term memory formation: neural and behavioral evidence
    Charan Ranganath
    Center for Neuroscience and Department of Psychology, University of California at Davis, CA 95616, USA
    J Cogn Neurosci 17:994-1010. 2005
    ....
  34. ncbi Overlooking the obvious: a meta-analytic comparison of digit symbol coding tasks and other cognitive measures in schizophrenia
    Dwight Dickinson
    VISN 5 Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center, Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
    Arch Gen Psychiatry 64:532-42. 2007
    ..In focusing on potentially localizable cognitive impairments, the schizophrenia meta-analytic literature has overlooked the largest single impairment: on digit symbol coding tasks...
  35. ncbi The right hippocampus participates in short-term memory maintenance of object-location associations
    Carinne Piekema
    Department of Psychonomics, Helmholtz Instituut, Utrecht University, Heidelberglaan 2, 3584 CS Utrecht, The Netherlands
    Neuroimage 33:374-82. 2006
    ..The present results suggest a hippocampal involvement in active maintenance when feature combinations that include spatial information have to be maintained online...
  36. ncbi Shared and distinct neurophysiological components of the digits forward and backward tasks as revealed by functional neuroimaging
    Brooke K Gerton
    Unit on Integrative Neuroimaging, Clinical Brain Disorders Branch, Intramural Research Program, National Institute of Mental Health, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892-1365, USA
    Neuropsychologia 42:1781-7. 2004
    ....
  37. ncbi A mechanistic account of striatal dopamine function in human cognition: psychopharmacological studies with cabergoline and haloperidol
    Michael J Frank
    Department of Psychology and Program in NeuroscienceUniversity of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
    Behav Neurosci 120:497-517. 2006
    ..Drug effects interacted with baseline working memory span in all tasks. Taken together, the results support a unified account of the role of dopamine in modulating cognitive processes that depend on the basal ganglia...
  38. ncbi Content- and task-specific dissociations of frontal activity during maintenance and manipulation in visual working memory
    Harald M Mohr
    Department of Psychiatry, , D-60590 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    J Neurosci 26:4465-71. 2006
    ..We suggest that the enhanced demand on cognitive resources in manipulation compared with maintenance was met by interplay of content- and task-specific modules in a frontoparietal network...
  39. ncbi Neural correlates of spatial working memory in humans: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study comparing visual and tactile processes
    E Ricciardi
    Laboratory of Clinical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Pisa, Via Roma 55, I-56126 Pisa, Italy
    Neuroscience 139:339-49. 2006
    ....
  40. ncbi The effect of moderate to severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) on different aspects of memory: a selective review
    Eli Vakil
    Department of Psychology, and the Leslie and Susan Gonda Goldschmied Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
    J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 27:977-1021. 2005
    ..Such a research approach has the potential of explaining much of the variability in findings reported in the literature on the effect of TBI on memory...
  41. ncbi Representation of attended versus remembered locations in prefrontal cortex
    Mikhail A Lebedev
    Laboratory of Systems Neuroscience, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
    PLoS Biol 2:e365. 2004
    ..Instead, PF's delay-period activity probably contributes more to the process of attentional selection...
  42. ncbi Cortical capacity constraints for visual working memory: dissociation of fMRI load effects in a fronto-parietal network
    David E J Linden
    Max Planck Institut für Himforschung, Deutschordenstrasse 46, D 60528 Frankfurt, Germany
    Neuroimage 20:1518-30. 2003
    ..These results indicate that at least two distinct cortical subsystems are recruited for visual WM, and that their interplay changes when the capacity limit is reached...
  43. ncbi On the capacity of attention: its estimation and its role in working memory and cognitive aptitudes
    Nelson Cowan
    Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, 18 McAlester Hall, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
    Cogn Psychol 51:42-100. 2005
    ..So does digit span in children too young to rehearse...
  44. ncbi A short review of slow phase synchronization and memory: evidence for control processes in different memory systems?
    Wolfgang Klimesch
    Department of Physiological Psychology, University of Salzburg, Austria
    Brain Res 1235:31-44. 2008
    ..The hypothesis, suggested here is that theta and upper alpha reflect these processes which can be best studied when analyzing phase...
  45. ncbi Is the prefrontal cortex necessary for establishing cognitive sets?
    James B Rowe
    Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge University, Cambridge CB2 2QQ, United Kingdom
    J Neurosci 27:13303-10. 2007
    ..The results suggest that the left rostral prefrontal cortex is indeed required for establishing a cognitive set but that the essential function is to support the functional connectivity among the task-related regions...
  46. ncbi Distributed cortical systems in visual short-term memory revealed by event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging
    Matthias H J Munk
    Max Planck Institut für Hirnforschung, Deutschordenstrasse 46, D 60528 Frankfurt, Germany
    Cereb Cortex 12:866-76. 2002
    ..These modulations confirmed a posterior-anterior and right-left dissociation for spatial versus non-spatial memory and revealed that conjunction memory does not rely on a linear addition of the component processes...
  47. ncbi A functional magnetic resonance imaging study of working memory abnormalities in schizophrenia
    Matthew R Johnson
    Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center, The Institute of Living at Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT, USA
    Biol Psychiatry 60:11-21. 2006
    ..Additionally, differences between encoding and retrieval suggest that WM dysfunction may be manifested differently during the distinct phases of encoding, maintenance, and retrieval...
  48. ncbi Frontal lobe mechanisms that resolve proactive interference
    David Badre
    Department of Psychology and Neurosciences Program, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
    Cereb Cortex 15:2003-12. 2005
    ..Collectively, these results serve to specify and constrain proposed models of PI resolution...
  49. ncbi Meta-analyzing left hemisphere language areas: phonology, semantics, and sentence processing
    M Vigneau
    Groupe d'Imagerie Neurofonctionnelle, UMR 6194, CNRS CEA Caen and Paris 5 Universities, GIP Cyceron, Boulevard Henri Becquerel, BP 5229, 14074 Caen Cedex, France
    Neuroimage 30:1414-32. 2006
    ..These results argue for large-scale architecture networks rather than modular organization of language in the left hemisphere...
  50. ncbi Dissociation of function between the dorsal and the ventral hippocampus in spatial learning abilities of the rat: a within-subject, within-task comparison of reference and working spatial memory
    Helen H J Pothuizen
    Behavioural Neurobiology Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Schorenstrasse 16, CH-8603 Schwerzenbach, Switzerland
    Eur J Neurosci 19:705-12. 2004
    ..These results lend further support to the existence of a functional dissociation between the dorsal and the ventral hippocampus, with the former being preferentially involved in spatial learning...
  51. ncbi Functional frontoparietal connectivity during short-term memory as revealed by high-resolution EEG coherence analysis
    Claudio Babiloni
    Dipartimento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
    Behav Neurosci 118:687-97. 2004
    ..In conclusion, frontoparietal connectivity would optimize "representational" memory during STM. In this context, the frontal areas would increase their influence on parietal areas for memory retention...
  52. ncbi Functional-anatomic correlates of control processes in memory
    Randy L Buckner
    Department of Psychology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130, USA
    J Neurosci 23:3999-4004. 2003
  53. ncbi Organization of visual short-term memory
    Y Jiang
    Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520 8205, USA
    J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 26:683-702. 2000
    ..In summary, the authors proposed that VSTM stores the relational information of individual visual items on the basis of global spatial configuration...
  54. ncbi The representation of instructions operates like a prepared reflex: flanker compatibility effects found in first trial following S-R instructions
    Oshrit Cohen-Kdoshay
    Department of Behavioral Sciences ans Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
    Exp Psychol 56:128-33. 2009
    ..The authors show that the FCE was present in the first trial immediately following the instructions, thus providing unequivocal support for the PR metaphor...
  55. ncbi Early top-down control of visual processing predicts working memory performance
    Aaron M Rutman
    University of California, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
    J Cogn Neurosci 22:1224-34. 2010
    ..These results contribute to our evolving understanding of the mechanistic overlap between attention and memory...
  56. ncbi Effects of neuromodulation in a cortical network model of object working memory dominated by recurrent inhibition
    N Brunel
    LPS, Ecole Normale Superieure, 24 rue Lhomond, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France
    J Comput Neurosci 11:63-85. 2001
    ..The present study therefore points to several mechanisms that enhance the signal-to-noise ratio in working memory states. These mechanisms could be implemented in the prefrontal cortex by dopaminergic projections from the midbrain...
  57. ncbi The role of working memory representations in the control of attention
    Geoffrey F Woodman
    Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37240 1103, USA
    Cereb Cortex 17:i118-24. 2007
    ....
  58. ncbi Improved short-term spatial memory but impaired reversal learning following the dopamine D(2) agonist bromocriptine in human volunteers
    M A Mehta
    Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke s Hospital, UK
    Psychopharmacology (Berl) 159:10-20. 2001
    ..Studies in humans of cognitive effects of dopaminergic drugs have largely focused on tasks of working memory, with a few studies also examining executive function...
  59. ncbi The demonstration of short-term consolidation
    P Jolicoeur
    Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
    Cogn Psychol 36:138-202. 1998
    ..The results suggested that STC has limited capacity and that it requires central processing mechanisms. Additional evidence suggested that no memory for T1 was formed in STM when STC was not engaged...
  60. ncbi The role of working memory in visual selective attention
    J W de Fockert
    Department of Psychology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
    Science 291:1803-6. 2001
    ..These findings confirm a major role for working memory in the control of visual selective attention...
  61. ncbi Working memory controls involuntary attention switching: evidence from an auditory distraction paradigm
    Stefan Berti
    Institut für Allgemeine Psychologie, Universitat Leipzig, Seeburgstr 14 20, D 04103 Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
    Eur J Neurosci 17:1119-22. 2003
    ..The present data suggest that working memory is able to coordinate the maintenance of distractibility and the focus on the task at hand...
  62. ncbi Reward modulation of prefrontal and visual association cortex during an incentive working memory task
    Daniel C Krawczyk
    Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute and Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, USA
    Brain Res 1141:168-77. 2007
    ....
  63. ncbi Dopamine D2 receptor occupancy levels of acute sulpiride challenges that produce working memory and learning impairments in healthy volunteers
    Mitul A Mehta
    PET Psychiatry Group, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Hammersmith Hospital Imperial College, London, W12 0NN, UK
    Psychopharmacology (Berl) 196:157-65. 2008
    ..DA receptor occupancy could clearly contribute to the variance in findings, although this is typically not known...
  64. ncbi Polymorphisms in human dopamine D2 receptor gene affect gene expression, splicing, and neuronal activity during working memory
    Ying Zhang
    Program in Pharmacogenomics, Department of Pharmacology, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:20552-7. 2007
    ..Our results identify regulatory DRD2 polymorphisms that modify mRNA expression and splicing and working memory pathways...
  65. ncbi Speed selectivity in visual short term memory for motion
    D J McKeefry
    Division of Optometry, School of Life Sciences, University of Bradford, Bradford BD7 1DP, UK
    Vision Res 47:2418-25. 2007
    ..attributes are important in the storage of information about the speed of moving grating stimuli in visual short term memory (VSTM)...
  66. ncbi Audiospatial and visuospatial working memory in 6-13 year old school children
    Virve Vuontela
    Institute of Biomedicine/Physiology, FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
    Learn Mem 10:74-81. 2003
    ..The differences observed between the mastering of auditory and visual working memory tasks may indicate that visual working memory reaches functional maturity earlier than the corresponding auditory system...
  67. ncbi Neuronal correlates of parametric working memory in the prefrontal cortex
    R Romo
    Instituto de Fisiologia Celular, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico DF
    Nature 399:470-3. 1999
    ..Thus we predict that other behavioural tasks that require ordinal comparisons between scalar analogue stimuli would give rise to monotonic responses similar to those reported here...
  68. ncbi Load theory of selective attention and cognitive control
    Nilli Lavie
    Department of Psychology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
    J Exp Psychol Gen 133:339-54. 2004
    ..This theory resolves the long-standing early versus late selection debate and clarifies the role of cognitive control in selective attention...
  69. ncbi A functional neuroimaging study of motivation and executive function
    Stephan F Taylor
    Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 0118, USA
    Neuroimage 21:1045-54. 2004
    ..Areas of overlap and interaction may integrate information about value, or they may represent a general effect of motivation increasing neural effort...
  70. ncbi Critical role of the hippocampus in memory for sequences of events
    Norbert J Fortin
    Laboratory of Cognitive Neurobiology, Department of Psychology, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
    Nat Neurosci 5:458-62. 2002
    ..These findings support the hypothesis that hippocampal networks mediate associations between sequential events that constitute elements of an episodic memory...
  71. ncbi Activity of neurons in cortical area MT during a memory for motion task
    James W Bisley
    Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy and Center for Visual Science, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14642, USA
    J Neurophysiol 91:286-300. 2004
    ..These results support the hypothesis that MT neurons actively participate in the successful execution of all aspects of the task requiring processing and remembering visual motion...
  72. ncbi Prefrontal cortex dysfunction during working memory performance in schizophrenia: reconciling discrepant findings
    Dara S Manoach
    Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital-East and Harvard Medical School, 36 First Avenue, Room 420, 02129, Charlestown, MA, USA
    Schizophr Res 60:285-98. 2003
    ..In combination with other techniques, neuroimaging can identify the neural circuitry responsible for WM deficits and elucidate the contribution of each anatomical component...
  73. ncbi An area specialized for spatial working memory in human frontal cortex
    S M Courtney
    Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health, Building 10, Room 4C104, 10 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892 1366, USA
    Science 279:1347-51. 1998
    ..This area is located more superiorly and posteriorly in the human than in the monkey brain, which may explain why it was not recognized previously...
  74. ncbi The search for the phonological store: from loop to convolution
    Bradley R Buchsbaum
    Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 3190, USA
    J Cogn Neurosci 20:762-78. 2008
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    Geoffrey F Woodman
    Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37240 1103, USA
    Psychon Bull Rev 15:223-9. 2008
    ..These experiments show that individuals can control which features of an object are selectively stored in working memory...
  76. ncbi Short term memory for tactile stimuli
    Alberto Gallace
    Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
    Brain Res 1190:132-42. 2008
    ..Finally, the results of a third experiment showed that the differences in performance between the numerosity judgment and partial report tasks could not be explained solely in terms of any difference in task difficulty...
  77. ncbi Prefrontal selection and medial temporal lobe reactivation in retrieval of short-term verbal information
    Katsuyuki Sakai
    Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology, 12 Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK
    Cereb Cortex 14:914-21. 2004
    ..By contrast, the activity in the middle frontal gyrus did not differ between the two conditions. Taking these results together, we have shown the double dissociation between the PFC and MTL in memory retrieval...
  78. ncbi Functional MRI of auditory verbal working memory: long-term reproducibility analysis
    Xingchang Wei
    Center for Neurological Imaging, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Neuroimage 21:1000-8. 2004
    ..The quantitative estimation of the proportions of within-subject and between-subject variabilities in the overall variability may be helpful for the design of future studies...
  79. ncbi Limbic over-activity in depression during preserved performance on the n-back task
    E J Rose
    Division of Psychiatry, School of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
    Neuroimage 29:203-15. 2006
    ..The study thus offers a rationale for explaining depressive cognitive impairment by the abnormal fronto-limbic activation found in clinical depression...
  80. ncbi Neural correlates of consolidation in working memory
    Nelly Mainy
    INSERM U280, Lyon, France
    Hum Brain Mapp 28:183-93. 2007
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  81. ncbi Working memory and the functional anatomy of the frontal lobes
    Randall S Scheibel
    Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
    Cortex 40:218-9. 2004
  82. ncbi Self-paced working memory: validation of verbal variations of the n-back paradigm
    Kathryn M McMillan
    Department of Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
    Brain Res 1139:133-42. 2007
    ..Behavioral results differ from other published reports, perhaps offering insight into true working memory strategy in normal subjects...
  83. ncbi Event-related potential measures of visual working memory
    Trafton W Drew
    Department of Psychology, University of Oregon, Eugene 97403-1227, USA
    Clin EEG Neurosci 37:286-91. 2006
    ..This component is sensitive to an individual's working memory capacity and may provide a window into the operations of this central cognitive construct...
  84. ncbi Working memory for conjunctions relies on the medial temporal lobe
    Ingrid R Olson
    The Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    J Neurosci 26:4596-601. 2006
    ..Additional analyses suggest that the hippocampus per se is critical for accurate conjunction working memory. We propose that the hippocampus is critically involved in memory for conjunctions at both short and long delays...
  85. ncbi Enhancement of object representations in primate perirhinal cortex during a visual working-memory task
    Sidney R Lehky
    Computational Neuroscience Lab, The Salk Institute, 10010 N Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
    J Neurophysiol 97:1298-310. 2007
    ..The onset of the enhanced signal in PRh during the object-memory task occurred with a latency of 80 ms after the onset of the stimulus response, suggesting that it was the result of top-down feedback...
  86. ncbi Short-term consolidation of visual patterns interferes with visuo-spatial attention: converging evidence from human electrophysiology
    Nicolas Robitaille
    Centre de Recherche en Neuropsychologie et Cognition, Departement de Psychologie, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
    Brain Res 1185:158-69. 2007
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  87. ncbi Striatal dopamine and working memory
    Susan M Landau
    Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 3190, USA
    Cereb Cortex 19:445-54. 2009
    ..These results provide new evidence that striatal dopaminergic function is related to PFC-dependent functions, particularly brain activation and behavioral performance during WM tasks...
  88. ncbi Unity and diversity of tonic and phasic executive control components in episodic and working memory
    P Marklund
    Department of Psychology, Umea University, Sweden
    Neuroimage 36:1361-73. 2007
    ..Taken together, these results converge with theoretical models advocating both unity and diversity among executive control processes...
  89. ncbi EEG oscillations and recognition memory: theta correlates of memory retrieval and decision making
    Joshua Jacobs
    Neuroscience Graduate Group, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    Neuroimage 32:978-87. 2006
    ..We also studied how these oscillatory dynamics complemented event-related potentials. These findings are the first to demonstrate that distinct patterns of theta oscillations can simultaneously relate to different aspects of behavior...
  90. ncbi Time-based and event-based prospective memory across adulthood: underlying mechanisms and differential costs on the ongoing task
    Theodor Jager
    Saarland University
    J Gen Psychol 135:4-22. 2008
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  91. ncbi Modulation of memory and visuospatial processes by biperiden and rivastigmine in elderly healthy subjects
    E Wezenberg
    Department of Psychiatry 333, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, P O 9101, 6500, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
    Psychopharmacology (Berl) 181:582-94. 2005
    ..In recent animal studies, it was found that selective cholinergic modulation affects visuospatial processes even more than memory function...
  92. ncbi Prefrontal cortex function in nonpsychotic siblings of individuals with schizophrenia
    Zainab Delawalla
    Department of Psychology, Washington University, St Louis, Missouri 63130, USA
    Biol Psychiatry 63:490-7. 2008
    ..In individuals with schizophrenia, deficits in context processing have been associated with functional impairments of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC)...
  93. ncbi Cholinergic enhancement of episodic memory in healthy young adults
    Georg Gron
    Department of Psychiatry, University of Ulm, Leimgrubenweg 12, 89075 Ulm, Germany
    Psychopharmacology (Berl) 182:170-9. 2005
    ..Acetylcholine esterase (AchE) inhibitors are known to remediate symptoms of Alzheimer's disease. However, only few systematic data exist on the effects of cholinergic treatment on cognitive functions in normal subjects...
  94. ncbi The phonological loop in task alternation and task repetition
    Baptist Liefooghe
    Department of Experiemental Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium
    Memory 13:550-60. 2005
    ..Experiment 3 ruled out the involvement of the visuo-spatial sketchpad and more general coordination demands during dual tasking...
  95. ncbi An extract of Salvia (sage) with anticholinesterase properties improves memory and attention in healthy older volunteers
    Andrew B Scholey
    Brain Sciences Institute, Swinburne University, Melbourne, Vic, 3122, Australia
    Psychopharmacology (Berl) 198:127-39. 2008
    ..In recent controlled trials, administration of sage extracts with established cholinergic properties improved cognitive function in young adults...
  96. ncbi Cocaine dependence and attention switching within and between verbal and visuospatial working memory
    A Kubler
    Department of Psychology and Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
    Eur J Neurosci 21:1984-92. 2005
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  97. ncbi Selective effects of clonidine and temazepam on attention and memory
    Brian Tiplady
    Department of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care, and Pain Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
    J Psychopharmacol 19:259-65. 2005
    ..These results support the suggestion that central noradrenergic function may be involved in preventing distraction, but do not confirm other reports suggesting that some aspects of performance are improved with clonidine...
  98. ncbi Relations between the Test of Variables of Attention (TOVA) and the Children's Memory Scale (CMS)
    Cynthia A Riccio
    Texas A and M University, USA
    J Atten Disord 11:167-71. 2007
    ..The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between the Test of Variables of Attention (TOVA), a measure of attention, to components of memory and learning as measured by the Children's Memory Scale (CMS)...
  99. ncbi A direct comparison of anterior prefrontal cortex involvement in episodic retrieval and integration
    Jeremy R Reynolds
    Department of Psychology, Washington University, Saint Louis, MO 63139, USA
    Cereb Cortex 16:519-28. 2006
    ..Moreover, the study highlights the benefits of activation latency analysis for understanding functional contributions and dissociations between closely linked brain regions...
  100. ncbi Distractibility in AD/HD predominantly inattentive and combined subtypes: the P3a ERP component, heart rate and performance
    Hannah A D Keage
    Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, School of Psychology, Flinders University, SA 5042, Australia
    J Integr Neurosci 5:139-58. 2006
    ..AD/HD groups also displayed a number of deficits on Switching of Attention and Verbal Memory tasks, however, the pattern of abnormality mostly reflected general cognitive deficits rather than resulting from distraction...
  101. ncbi Visuospatial executive function in Turner syndrome: functional MRI and neurocognitive findings
    Sarah J Hart
    Department of Psychology, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hil, NC 27599, USA
    Brain 129:1125-36. 2006
    ..The results reveal impaired frontoparietal circuitry recruitment during visuospatial executive processing in Turner syndrome, suggesting a significant role for the X chromosome in the development of these pathways...

Research Grants82

  1. Memory, Thiamine Levels, and Brain Structure in Heart Failure
    MARY ANN WOO; Fiscal Year: 2010
    ....
  2. Memory, Thiamine Levels, and Brain Structure in Heart Failure
    Mary Woo; Fiscal Year: 2009
    ....
  3. CRCNS: Gamma Rhythms and Cell Assemblies
    Nancy Kopell; Fiscal Year: 2009
    ..They are believed to be important for a range of functions, including attention, early sensory processing, short term memory, motor activity...
  4. CRCNS: Gamma Rhythms and Cell Assemblies
    Nancy Kopell; Fiscal Year: 2010
    ..They are believed to be important for a range of functions, including attention, early sensory processing, short term memory, motor activity...
  5. CRCNS: Gamma Rhythms and Cell Assemblies
    Nancy Kopell; Fiscal Year: 2010
    ..They are believed to be important for a range of functions, including attention, early sensory processing, short term memory, motor activity...
  6. NEURAL MECHANISMS OF CUTANEOUS SPATIAL INTEGRATION
    Esther P Gardner; Fiscal Year: 2010
    ....
  7. Mechanisms of Ubiquitin Trafficking in Neurons
    Marie W Wooten; Fiscal Year: 2010
    ..mice causes oxidative stress leading to Alzheimer-like characteristics such as tau-phosphorylation, loss of short term memory and synaptic plasticity, reduced serum BDNF, depression, anxiety, along with accumulation of highly ..
  8. NE Signal Transduction in Classical Conditioning
    Paula Bickford; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ..Specific Objective 3: Hypothesis: NE and PKA lead to significant downstream alterations in signaling molecules. ..
  9. NE Signal Transduction in Classical Conditioning
    Paula Bickford; Fiscal Year: 2009
    ..Specific Objective 3: Hypothesis: NE and PKA lead to significant downstream alterations in signaling molecules. ..
  10. The Functional Neurobiology of Cannabinoids in Brain
    EDWARD FRENCH; Fiscal Year: 2006
    ..abstract_text> ..
  11. NEURONAL INTEGRATION IN CEREBELLAR SYSTEMS
    Vlastislav Bracha; Fiscal Year: 2004
    ....
  12. MODULATION OF NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE BY CANNABINOIDS
    Andrew Gifford; Fiscal Year: 2002
    ..Furthermore, these experiments will give information on the mode of action of cannabinoid antagonists and could suggest novel therapeutic uses for this new class of compounds. ..
  13. HIPPOCAMPAL SYSTEM FUNCTION ASSOCIATIVE LEARNING
    John Disterhoft; Fiscal Year: 1993
    ..The short term memory load will be manipulated by increasing the trace interval to determine if this affects neuronal processing ..
  14. A Familial Study of Severe Phonology Disorders
    Barbara Lewis; Fiscal Year: 2009
    ..This project will provide life-span data that is needed to determine full significance of early SSD for the later functioning of this population and identify factors that influence adolescent/young adult outcomes. ..
  15. Contribution of emotional memory to social cognition in aging
    Haiyin Chen; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ..Understanding its normal function and changes between the young and old amygdala will be a critical step toward finding effective treatments for these diseases. ..
  16. Benzodiazepine Use/Abuse: Effects on Memory Mechanisms
    MIRIAM MINTZER; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ..Information from this project can also be used to develop cognitive rehabilitation programs and to tailor drug abuse and anxiety treatment interventions to the specific capabilities of long-term users. ..
  17. NEUROLOGY OF MEMORY
    Stuart Zola; Fiscal Year: 2002
    ..A finding that hippocampal damage effects spatial memory to the same degree as do larger lesions would suggest that the hippocampus has a special role in spatial memory. ..
  18. Behavioral and neural mechanisms of visual short-term memory
    WHEE KY MA; Fiscal Year: 2010
    ..Here, we propose to better characterize, through experiment and theory, the behavioral and neural mechanisms underlying visual short-term memory, with the eventual goal of improving the diagnosis and treatment of these disorders. ..
  19. Visual Short Term Memory in Infancy
    LISA OAKES; Fiscal Year: 2003
    ..These experiments will provide an important foundation for the study of short-term memory in infancy. ..
  20. BIOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF VOCAL LEARNING
    ROBERT DOOLING; Fiscal Year: 2001
    ....
  21. PREFRONTAL AMYGDALA INTERACTIONS IN FEAR CONDITIONING
    GREGORY QUIRK; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ..A detailed knowledge of the circuits and pharmacology of fear extinction could improve current exposure-based treatments for PTSD and phobias, which rely on extinction learning. ..
  22. SHORT-TERM MEMORY AND SYNTACTIC DEFICITS IN APHASIA
    Randi Martin; Fiscal Year: 2006
    ....
  23. EFFECTS OF PRENATAL COCAINE USE: 15-YEAR FOLLOW-UP
    GALE RICHARDSON; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ..abstract_text> ..