Activity-silent storage

Key question

How do we keep a thought in mind?

Check your understanding

Find an example, an application and a limit. Explain the concept without using its name, then compare your explanation with a primary source.

Claims to examine

• Working-memory maintenance need not always depend on continuously elevated neural activity.

  Editorial claim · contestedExamine the source →

Follow a learning route

• How do we keep a thought in mind?

  Compare multicomponent, attention-based, persistent-activity and activity-silent accounts of working memory.

Reading connections

• “Activity-silent” working memory in prefrontal cortex: a dynamic coding framework

  Mark Stokes

• Cellular basis of working memory

  Patricia Goldman-Rakic

• Working Memory Capacity

  Nelson Cowan

• Working Memory: The State of the Science

  Robert Logie · Valérie Camos · Nelson Cowan

• An Integrative Theory of Prefrontal Cortex Function

  Earl K. Miller · Jonathan Cohen

• Synaptic Theory of Working Memory

  Mongillo, Barak · Tsodyks