TY - JOUR
T1 - Working memory and executive function
T2 - evidence from neuroimaging
AU - Carpenter, Patricia A.
AU - Just, Marcel Adam
AU - Reichle, Erik D.
PY - 2000/4/1
Y1 - 2000/4/1
N2 - Traditional theories of working memory and executive function, when mapped in straightforward ways into the neural domain, yield predictions that are only partly supported by the recent neuroimaging studies. Neuroimaging studies suggest that some constituent functions, such as maintaining information in active form and manipulating it, are not discretely localized in prefrontal regions. Some hypothesized executive processes, such as goal management, have effects in several cortical regions, including posterior regions. Such results suggest a more dynamic and distributed view of the cortical organization of working memory and executive functions.
AB - Traditional theories of working memory and executive function, when mapped in straightforward ways into the neural domain, yield predictions that are only partly supported by the recent neuroimaging studies. Neuroimaging studies suggest that some constituent functions, such as maintaining information in active form and manipulating it, are not discretely localized in prefrontal regions. Some hypothesized executive processes, such as goal management, have effects in several cortical regions, including posterior regions. Such results suggest a more dynamic and distributed view of the cortical organization of working memory and executive functions.
KW - neuroscience
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0034112298&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/S0959-4388(00)00074-X
DO - 10.1016/S0959-4388(00)00074-X
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:0034112298
SN - 0959-4388
VL - 10
SP - 195
EP - 199
JO - Current Opinion in Neurobiology
JF - Current Opinion in Neurobiology
IS - 2
ER -