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Does sustained ERP activity in posterior lexico-semantic processing areas during short-term memory tasks only reflect activated long-term memory?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2003

Steve Majerus ,
Martial Van der Linden ,
Fabienne Collette  and
Eric Salmon
Steve Majerus*
Affiliation:
Department of Cognitive Sciences, University of Liège, 4000 Liège, Belgium
Martial Van der Linden*
Affiliation:
Cognitive Psychopathology Unit, University of Geneva, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland
Fabienne Collette*
Affiliation:
Department of Cognitive Sciences, University of Liège, 4000 Liège, Belgium
Eric Salmon*
Affiliation:
Cyclotron Research Center, University of Liège, 4000 Liège, Belgium
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Abstract:

We challenge Ruchkin et al.'s claim in reducing short-term memory (STM) to the active part of long-term memory (LTM), by showing that their data cannot rule out the possibility that activation of posterior brain regions could also reflect the contribution of a verbal STM buffer.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 26 , Issue 6 , December 2003 , pp. 746 - 747
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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