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Nature Neuroscience 11, 5 - 6 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nn0108-5
The bouncer in the brain
- The authors are in the Department of Psychology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403-1227, USA. e-mail: awh@uoregon.edu or e-mail: vogel@uoregon.edu
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.
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