Short-term memory and the left intraparietal sulcus: Focus of attention? Further evidence from a face short-term memory paradigm

摘要: This study explored the validity of an attentional account for involvement left intraparietal sulcus (IPS) in visual STM tasks. considers that during tasks, IPS acts as modulator, maintaining activation long-term memory networks underlie initial perception and processing specific information to be retained. In a recognition paradigm, we presented sequences unfamiliar faces instructed participants remember different types information: either identity or their order presentation. We hypothesized that, if it should active both conditions, but connected neural specialized serial face processing. Our results showed was activated encoding reasons. During encoding, functional connectivity with areas right IPS, bilateral premotor cerebellar cortices, reproducing earlier obtained verbal experiment. preferential temporal, inferior parietal medial frontal involved detailed These not only support STM, given similarity previous task, they further highlight importance modulator variety