Cellular basis of working memory

A 1995 account of cortical mechanisms of working memory. Trace the task, delay-period observations and inference about maintained information.

How to study this source

• How do we keep a thought in mind?

  coreDelay-period recordings and dynamic maintenance accounts

  Trace the delay-period observations and the inference about how information is retained.

Ideas and questions

Read background definitions when a term blocks the argument. Then return to the source and reconstruct its claim in your own words.

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