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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:dateCreated
2002-11-14
pubmed:abstractText
The performance of memory-guided saccades with two different delays (3 and 30 s of memorization) was studied in seven healthy subjects. Double-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation (dTMS) with an interstimulus interval of 100 ms was applied over the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) early (1 s after target presentation) and late (28 s after target presentation). Early stimulation significantly increased in both delays the percentage of error in amplitude (PEA) of contralateral memory-guided saccades compared to the control experiment without stimulation. dTMS applied late in the delay had no significant effect on PEA. Furthermore, we found a significantly smaller effect of early stimulation in the long-delay paradigm. These results suggest a time-dependent hierarchical organization of the spatial working memory with a functional dominance of DLPFC during the early memorization, independent from the memorization delay. For a long memorization delay, however, working memory seems to have an additional, DLPFC-independent component.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:author
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1823-7
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:articleTitle
Time-dependent hierarchical organization of spatial working memory: a transcranial magnetic stimulation study.
pubmed:affiliation
Eye Movement Research Laboratory, Department of Neurology, Bern University, Bern, CH-3010, Switzerland.