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. 2008 Jan;11(1):5-6.
doi: 10.1038/nn0108-5.

The bouncer in the brain

Edward Awh  1 , Edward K Vogel
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The bouncer in the brain

Edward Awh et al. Nat Neurosci. 2008 Jan.

Abstract

Efficiency variations in the filtering of relevant from irrelevant information could contribute to individual differences in working memory. A new functional imaging study suggests that the basal ganglia act as this filter because activity in this region before stimulus presentation was inversely correlated with unnecessary storage.

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