Brain’s Code for Visual Working Memory Deciphered in Monkeys
– NIH-Funded Study
The brain holds in mind what has just been seen by
synchronizing brain waves in a working memory circuit, an animal study
supported by the National Institutes of Health suggests. The more in-sync such
electrical signals of neurons were in two key hubs of the circuit, the more
those cells held the short-term memory of a just-seen object.
Charles Gray, Ph.D., of Montana State University, Bozeman, a
grantee of NIH’s National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), and colleagues,
report their findings Nov. 1, 2012, online, in the journal Science Express.