ReviewNeuron2018
Working Memory 2.0.
Review in Neuron, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 421 papers.
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421 citing papers in PubMed.
- Effects of a 4-week combined breathing control and self-talk intervention on neural activity and coping skills in athletes: a randomized control trial.BMC psychology · 2026Trial
- The effects of moderate-intensity aerobic exercise on cognitive function in individuals with stroke-induced mild cognitive impairment: a randomized controlled pilot study.Journal of rehabilitation medicine · 2024Trial
- Differential roles of frontoparietal regions in working memory and decision-making.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Eyes-Open Fronto-Central Alpha Activity as an Electrophysiological Correlate of Working Memory in Children with Predominantly Inattentive ADHD.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- A scalable touchscreen-based spatial working memory task for cross-species research.Neurobiology of learning and memory · 2026Article
- Dissociating the relationship between time perception and decisions to delay gratification.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Article
- Altered thalamo-prefrontal synchrony dynamics during spatial working memory task performance in a SETD1A loss-of-function mouse model of schizophrenia predisposition.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026Article
- Breaking the bottleneck in AI clusters with parallel photonic integration.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Working Memory Impairment Induced by Chemotherapy-A Narrative Review.Brain sciences · 2026Review
- Distinct temporal neural dynamics of working memory in depressive patients: early encoding deficits and late maintenance correlates of rumination.Translational psychiatry · 2026Article
- Intrinsic Functional Architecture Reflects Individual Differences in Passive Working Memory: An Exploratory Resting-State fMRI Study.Human brain mapping · 2026Article
- Windows to the goal: Pupillary working memory signatures prospectively adapt to task demands.iScience · 2026Article
- DTI-ALPS and subcortical structural-functional coupling mediate the impact of sleep quality on working memory in insomnia disorder.Psychological medicine · 2026Article
- Entrainment of cortical gamma oscillations predicts improved bradykinesia and dyskinesia in Parkinson's disease.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
- Age-Related Differences in Neural Networks for Error Detection and Inhibitory Control: A LORETA-Based Comparative Study.Brain sciences · 2026Article
- Divergent transcriptomic pathways underlie sex-biased cognitive rescue by developmental GSK3B inhibition in a mouse model of 22q11.2 deletion syndrome.Translational psychiatry · 2026Article
- BiXformer: A Bidirectional Cross Attention Transformer for Disentangling Inter-Regional Neural Dynamics.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Prefrontal parvalbumin neurons mediate working memory in a task demand-dependent manner.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Similar Response Dynamics Represent Opposite Behaviors and Rewards in the Frontal Cortex.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026Article
- Neural synchrony between prefrontal and visual cortex supports visual working memory.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
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Abstract
Working memory is the fundamental function by which we break free from reflexive input-output reactions to gain control over our own thoughts. It has two types of mechanisms: online maintenance of information and its volitional or executive control. Classic models proposed persistent spiking for maintenance but have not explicitly addressed executive control. We review recent theoretical and empirical studies that suggest updates and additions to the classic model. Synaptic weight changes between sparse bursts of spiking strengthen working memory maintenance. Executive control acts via interplay between network oscillations in gamma (30-100 Hz) in superficial cortical layers (layers 2 and 3) and alpha and beta (10-30 Hz) in deep cortical layers (layers 5 and 6). Deep-layer alpha and beta are associated with top-down information and inhibition. It regulates the flow of bottom-up sensory information associated with superficial layer gamma. We propose that interactions between different rhythms in distinct cortical layers underlie working memory maintenance and its volitional control.
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