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More than working memory rides on long-term memory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2003

Joaquín M. Fuster*
Affiliation:
Neuropsychiatric Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA90095www.joaquinfuster.com

Abstract:

Single-unit data from the cortex of monkeys performing working-memory tasks support the main point of the target article. Those data, however, also indicate that the activation of long-term memory is essential to the processing of all cognitive functions. The activation of cortical long-term memory networks is a key neural mechanism in attention (working memory is a form thereof), perception, memory acquisition and retrieval, intelligence, and language.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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