Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: Persistent neural activity has been the focus of neuros-cientific research since it was first associated with com-plex cognitive behaviours. In particular, persistent firing has long been thought to be the neural mechanisms underlying short-term memory encoding and storage [1]. This activity is often elicited by short transient sti-muli that have to be retained in memory for long delay periods, in the order of several seconds, after the origi-nal stimulus disappeared. In this scenario, the brain stores information for future execution of action depending on that information. Persistent activity elicited in a recurrent network com-prising strong excitation in the local circuit has been extensively described in the literature (for a review see [2]). However, recent findings have shown that memory
Source: BMC Neuroscience
Language: English
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $2,990
OpenAlex ID: W2261262726