title: The bouncer in the brain.
abstract: Efficiency variations in the filtering of relevant from irrelevant information could contribute to individual differences in working memory. A new functional imaging study suggests that the basal ganglia act as this filter because activity in this region before stimulus presentation was inversely correlated with unnecessary storage.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1227, USA. awh@uoregon.edu
authors.forename: Edward
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Awh
authors.forename: Edward K
authors.initials: EK
authors.lastname: Vogel
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000098:blood supply / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008570:Memory, Short-Term / Q000502:physiology*