Top-down signal from prefrontal cortex in executive control of memory retrieval

• Published in: Nature (London) Vol. 401; no. 6754; pp. 699 - 703
• Main Authors: Tomita, Hyoe, Miyashita, Yasushi, Ohbayashi, Machiko, Nakahara, Kiyoshi, Hasegawa, Isao
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing 14.10.1999; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: Anatomical correlates of behavior; Animals; Behavioral psychophysiology; Biological and medical sciences; Brain; Cognition & reasoning; Cues; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Macaca; Memory; Mental Recall - physiology; Models, Neurological; Neural Pathways - physiology; Neurology; Neurons - physiology; Prefrontal Cortex - physiology; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Memory retrieval; Visual memory; Central nervous system; Discharge pattern; Electrophysiology; Check; Associative relation; Cognition; Temporal cortex; Macaca fuscata; Prefrontal cortex; Learning; Vertebrata; Visual stimulus; Mammalia; Acquisition process; Animal; Primates; Simioidea; Brain (vertebrata)

Knowledge or experience is voluntarily recalled from memory by reactivation of the neural representations in the cerebral association cortex. In inferior temporal cortex, which serves as the storehouse of visual long-term memory, activation of mnemonic engrams through electric stimulation results in...