A Neural Mechanism for Surprise-related Interruptions of Visuospatial Working Memory
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DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhw367
Abstract: Surprising perceptual events recruit a fronto-basal ganglia mechanism for inhibition, which suppresses motor activity following surprise. A recent study found that this inhibitory mechanism also disrupts the maintenance of verbal working memory (WM) after surprising… read more here.
Keywords: inhibitory mechanism; related interruptions; mechanism; surprise related ... See more keywords