Working Memory Task (IMAGE)

NIH/National Institute of Mental Health

Working Memory Task

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Over several trials, participants were required to attend to either the identity (non-emotional feature) or the emotion of a face, remember it during a 9-second delay, and match the feature to a subsequent face. Neural activity in the visual cortex elicited by the emotion trials predicted depressed patients' subsequent responsiveness to scopolamine treatment.

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Maura Furey, Ph.D., NIMH Experimental Therapeutics and Pathophysiology Branch

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