The neuroscience of working memory capacity and training

C Constantinidis, T Klingberg - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2016 - nature.com
Working memory—the ability to maintain and manipulate information over a period of
seconds—is a core component of higher cognitive functions. The storage capacity of …

Neural substrates of inhibitory control maturation in adolescence

C Constantinidis, B Luna - Trends in neurosciences, 2019 - cell.com
Inhibitory control matures through adolescence and into early adulthood, impacting decision-
making. Impairments in inhibitory control are associated with various psychopathologies …

Altered prefrontal excitation/inhibition balance and prefrontal output: markers of aging in human memory networks

W Legon, S Punzell, E Dowlati, SE Adams… - Cerebral …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Memory impairments and heightened prefrontal cortical (PFC) activity are hallmarks of
cognitive and neurobiological human aging. While structural integrity of PFC gray matter and …

[HTML][HTML] Working memory: from neural activity to the sentient mind

RJ Jaffe, C Constantinidis - Comprehensive Physiology, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Working memory is the ability to maintain and manipulate information in the conscious mind
over a timescale of seconds. This ability is thought to be maintained through the persistent …

Interareal spike-train correlations of anterior cingulate and dorsal prefrontal cortex during attention shifts

M Oemisch, S Westendorff, S Everling… - Journal of …, 2015 - Soc Neuroscience
The anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and prefrontal cortex (PFC) are believed to coactivate
during goal-directed behavior to identify, select, and monitor relevant sensory information …

Childhood cognitive development as a skill

T Klingberg - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2014 - cell.com
Theories view childhood development as being either driven by structural maturation of the
brain or being driven by skill-learning. It is hypothesized here that working memory (WM) …

Impaired parahippocampus connectivity in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

J Liu, X Zhang, C Yu, Y Duan, J Zhuo… - Journal of …, 2016 - content.iospress.com
Background: The parahippocampal gyrus (PHG) is an important region of the limbic system
that plays an important role in episodic memory. Elucidation of the PHG connectivity pattern …

The neurophysiology of working memory development: From childhood to adolescence and young adulthood

CM Gómez, CI Barriga-Paulino… - Reviews in the …, 2018 - degruyter.com
Working memory (WM) is an important cognitive function that is necessary to perform our
daily activities. The present review briefly describes the most accepted models underlying …

Functional maturation of GABA synapses during postnatal development of the monkey dorsolateral prefrontal cortex

G Gonzalez-Burgos, T Miyamae, DE Pafundo… - Cerebral …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Development of inhibition onto pyramidal cells may be crucial for the emergence of
cortical network activity, including gamma oscillations. In primate dorsolateral prefrontal …

[HTML][HTML] Child and adolescent development of the brain oscillatory activity during a working memory task

CM Gómez, V Munoz, EI Rodríguez-Martínez… - Brain and Cognition, 2023 - Elsevier
The developmental trajectories of brain oscillations during the encoding and maintenance
phases of a Working Memory (WM) task were calculated. The Delayed-Match-to-Sample …