Working memory: Unemployed but still doing day labor
Daniel S. Ruchkin a1, Jordan Grafman a2, Katherine Cameron a3 and Rita S. Berndt a4
a1 Department of Physiology, Program in Neurosciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201
druchkin@mindspring.com
a2 National Institutes of Health, Cognitive Neuroscience Section, NINDS, Bethesda, MD 20892
grafmanj@ninds.hih.gov
http://intra.ninds.hih.gov/Lab.asp?Org_ID=83
a3 Department of Psychology, Washington College, Chestertown, MD 21620
katherine.cameron@washcoll.edu
http://faculty.washcoll.edu/bios/cameron_katherine.html
a4 Department of Neurology, Program in Neurosciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201
rberndt@umaryland.edu
http://neuroscience.umaryland.edu/faculty.asp?FacultyID=4
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AbstractThe goal of our target article is to establish that electrophysiological data constrain models of short-term memory retention operations to schemes in which activated long-term memory is its representational basis. The temporary stores correspond to neural circuits involved in the perception and subsequent processing of the relevant information, and do not involve specialized neural circuits dedicated to the temporary holding of information outside of those embedded in long-term memory. The commentaries ranged from general agreement with the view that short-term memory stores correspond to activated long-term memory (e.g., Abry, Sato, Schwartz, Loevenbruck & Cathiard [Abry etal.], Cowan, Fuster, Grote, Hickok & Buchsbaum, Keenan, Hyönä & Kaakinen [Keenan et al.], Martin, Morra), to taking a definite exception to this view (e.g., Baddeley, Düzel, Logie & Della Sala, Kroger, Majerus, Van der Linden, Colette & Salmon [Majerus et al.], Vallar).
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