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Banishing the homunculus: Making working memory work
2006
Neuroscience
The prefrontal cortex has long been thought to subserve both working memory and "executive" function, but the mechanistic basis of their integrated function has remained poorly understood, often amounting to a homunculus. This paper reviews the progress in our laboratory and others pursuing a long-term research agenda to deconstruct this homunculus by elucidating the precise computational and neural mechanisms underlying these phenomena. We outline six key functional demands underlying working
doi:10.1016/j.neuroscience.2005.04.067
pmid:16343792
fatcat:efb7e3iyozdffdulqgeaqwkfwq