Neuroscience · Cognitive Neuroscience
A topic within Cognitive Neuroscience, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Neuroscience.
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Bradley Postle
Argues working memory is not a dedicated brain system but an emergent capacity of sensory, motor and attentional systems recruited to keep information active.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Shintaro Funahashi, Charles Bruce & Patricia Goldman-Rakic
Shows single prefrontal neurons fire persistently through the delay of a memory-guided saccade task, giving a cellular mechanism for holding information 'online' after the stimulus has disappeared.