Persistent activity (indexed by broadband gamma) across human cortex encodes stimulus features and predicts motor output.

Haller, Matar, John Case, Nathan E. Crone, Edward F. Chang, David King-Stephens, Kenneth D. Laxer, Peter B. Weber, Josef Parvizi, Robert T. Knight, and Avgusta Y. Shestyuk. “Persistent neuronal activity in human prefrontal cortex links perception and action.” Nature Human Behaviour (2017): 1.

But how persistent is it?
Lundqvist, M., Rose, J., Herman, P, Brincat, S.L, Buschman, T.J., and Miller, E.K. (2016) Gamma and beta bursts underlie working memory.  Neuron, published online March 17, 2016. View PDF »

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The Miller Lab uses experimental and theoretical approaches to study the neural basis of the high-level cognitive functions that underlie complex goal-directed behavior. ekmillerlab.mit.edu