The Hierarchical Organization of Prefrontal Cortex of Working Memory

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10.2991/aebmr.k.220404.098How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Working Memory; Hierarchical organization; prefrontal cortex; systems of working memory; top-down control

Abstract

Working memory is a dominant topic in neurobiology that has been investigated frequently. The hypothesis related to the mechanisms of working memory leads to high controversy among scientists. More specifically, how working memory is organized to allow short-term retention of information without the information present in the environment is the core of the debate. The hierarchical organization of working memory is a widely accepted system that describes the organization of the memory as a hierarchy that has different levels of complexity and abstractness. The development of the system has encountered several major leaps of accomplishment that eventually led to the mature model of the hierarchical organization over the past decades. The enhancement of the system encounters different stages, including the proposal of working memory framework, the discovery of persistent firing of the neurons during the delay period, the proposal of hierarchical organization of the neurons, and the discovery of the architectural arrangement of the organization of neurons in the prefrontal cortex. The research subject is human, more specifically, the reaction of the human brain towards temporal information and to remember the short-term information without it present in the environment. The research method involves synthesizing articles and experimental results from history that have contributed significantly to the proposal of hierarchical organization. The review presents several major developments and experimental accomplishments that is monumental to the process of hierarchical organization of prefrontal cortex development.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Huanyan Zheng
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/04/18
TI  - The Hierarchical Organization of Prefrontal Cortex of Working Memory
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Creative Industry and Knowledge Economy (CIKE 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 514
EP  - 518
SN  - 2352-5428
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