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JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 22, Issue 3, Pages 447-456Publisher
MIT PRESS
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21209
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- NARSAD Young Investigator Award
- L. C. Tanner Family Foundation
- Intramural NINDS
- DARPA
- National Science Foundation [IIS-0513692, CCF-0401498, EIA-0323604, CNS-0514485, IIS-0534628, CNS-0528201, OISE-0405402]
- Department of Energy
- IBM Faculty Award
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Working memory (WM) has been described as short-term retention of information that is no longer accessible in the environment, and the manipulation of this information for subsequent use in guiding behavior. WM is viewed as a cognitive process underlying higher-order cognitive functions. Evidence supports a critical role for PFC in mediating WM performance. Studies show psychomotor processing speed and accuracy account for considerable variance in neural efficiency (Ne). This study compared the relative effects of active and sham 10 Hz rTMS applied to dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) on indices of Ne in healthy participants performing a WM paradigm that models the association between WM load and task behavior [Sternberg, S. High-speed scanning in human memory. Science, 153, 652-654, 1966]. Previous studies identified a relationship between diminished Ne and impaired WM across a broad array of clinical disorders. In the present study, the authors predicted there would be a main effect of stimulation group (STM) on accuracy (SCR) and processing speed (RT), hence, Ne. We observed a main effect of STM for RT without an effect on SCR; even so, there was a robust effect of STMon Ne.
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