Susan M. Courtney

TL;DR: Using functional magnetic resonance imaging in humans, an area in the superior frontal sulcus was identified that is specialized for spatial working memory.

TL;DR: Using fMRI to obtain dynamic measures of neural activity related to different components of a face working memory task, a continuum of functional specialization is revealed, from occipital through multiple prefrontal areas, regarding each area's relative contribution to perceptual and mnemonic processing.

TL;DR: The results show that the neural systems involved in working memory for faces and for spatial location are functionally segregated, with different areas recruited in both extrastriate and frontal cortices for processing the two types of visual information.

TL;DR: Brain activity during attention shifts using rapid, event-related fMRI of human observers as they covertly shifted attention between two peripheral spatial locations suggests that activation of the parietal cortex is associated with a discrete signal to shift spatial attention, and is not the source of a signal to continuously maintain the current attentive state.

TL;DR: Whereas areas specialized for object working memory in humans and monkeys are similarly located in ventrolateral prefrontal cortex, those specialized for spatial working memory occupy a more superior and posterior location within dorsal prefrontal cortex in humans than in monkeys.