The Cognitive Neuroscience of Visual Working Memory

• Main Author: Natasha Sigala (auth)
• Other Authors: Zsuzsa Kaldy (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2017
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Neurosciences; visual working memory; development; delay activity; fronto-parietal network; infants; children; prefrontal cortex; neuroimaging; capacity
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Visual working memory allows us to temporarily maintain and manipulate visual information in order to solve a task. The study of the brain mechanisms underlying this function began more than half a century ago, with Scoville and Milner's (1957) seminal discoveries with amnesic patients. This ti...