A commonly expressed view is that short-term memory (STM) is nothing more than activated
long-term memory. If true, this would overturn a central tenet of cognitive psychology—the …

The concept of working memory proposes that a dedicated system maintains and stores
information in the short term, and that this system underlies human thought processes …

There is currently no agreement on which factor modulates most effectively and enduringly
brain plasticity in bilingual individuals. Grouping heterogeneous linguistic profiles under a …

We performed a comprehensive cognitive, neuroimaging, and genetic study of 31 patients
with primary progressive aphasia (PPA), a decline in language functions that remains …

A connectionist model of human short-term memory is presented that extends the
“phonological loop”(AD Baddeley, 1986) to encompass serial order and learning …

Objective: Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is characterized by isolated decline in
language functions. Semantic dementia and progressive nonfluent aphasia are accepted …

Abstract Short-term memory (STM), the limited information temporarily in a state of
heightened accessibility, includes just-presented events and recently retrieved information …

FOR THE PAST 200 YEARS, virtually all attempts to account for the neural bases and the
evolution of human language have focused on the neocortex. And in the past 40 years …

The present study investigates the functional neuroanatomy of music perception with
functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Three different subject groups were …

Studies of patients with focal brain lesions remain critical components of research programs
attempting to understand human brain function. Whereas functional imaging typically …