Information Storage and Executive Control May Not Be So Separate after All.
Prefrontal cortex has been considered to implement processes such as attention, which control information stored elsewhere. In this issue of Neuron, Ester et al. (2015) demonstrate it also stores precise stimulus-specific information, questioning assumed neuroanatomical distinctions between storage and control.
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, Ames Hall, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA. Electronic address: Courtney@jhu.edu.
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