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It is well known that during delayed-response task experiments, cells in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) of awake monkeys exhibit sustained activity during the delay period between the presentation of a transient stimulus and the arrival of a “go” signal [1, 2, 3, 4]. Presumably this persistent PFC network activity carries a short-term memory of the stimulus during the delay period (usually a few seconds). This information is then used by the animal to perform a behavioral response at the go signal.
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Camperi, M., Wang, XJ. (1997). Modeling Delay-Period Activity in the Prefrontal Cortex during Working Memory Tasks. In: Bower, J.M. (eds) Computational Neuroscience. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9800-5_44
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