Efficiency variations in the filtering of relevant from irrelevant information could contribute to individual differences in working memory. A new functional imaging study suggests that the basal ganglia act as this filter because activity in this region before stimulus presentation was inversely correlated with unnecessary storage.
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Awh, E., Vogel, E. The bouncer in the brain. Nat Neurosci 11, 5–6 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn0108-5
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