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Motor cortex helps drive serial memory

In discerning sequence information, animals may rely on a part of the brain often thought to control only muscle movements.

References:

Carpenter, A.F., A.P. Georgopoulos, and G. Pellizzer. 1999. Motor cortical encoding of serial order in a context-recall task. Science 283(March 12):1752.

Sources:

Apostolos P. Georgopoulos
University of Minnesota
Center for Cognitive Sciences
Minneapolis, MN 55455

James C. Houk
Northwestern University Medical School
Department of Physiology
M211 Ward 5315
303 East Chicago Avenue
Chicago, IL 60611

From Science News, Vol. 155, No. 11, March 13, 1999, p. 165. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.

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