title: Working memory in primate sensory systems.
abstract: Sensory working memory consists of the short-term storage of sensory stimuli to guide behaviour. There is increasing evidence that elemental sensory dimensions - such as object motion in the visual system or the frequency of a sound in the auditory system - are stored by segregated feature-selective systems that include not only the prefrontal and parietal cortex, but also areas of sensory cortex that carry out relatively early stages of processing. These circuits seem to have a dual function: precise sensory encoding and short-term storage of this information. New results provide insights into how activity in these circuits represents the remembered sensory stimuli.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy, Center for Visual Science, Box 603, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14642, USA. tania@cvs.rochester.edu
authors.forename: Tatiana
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Pasternak
authors.forename: Mark W
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: Greenlee
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001307:Auditory Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008570:Memory, Short-Term / Q000502:physiology*; D009415:Nerve Net / Q000502:physiology; D016571:Neural Networks, Computer; D011323:Primates; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*