Oscillatory Model of Short Term Memory

It seems quite natural to assume that the limited capacity is due to the special dynamical nature of STM. Recently, Crick and Koch (1990) suggested that the working memory is functionally related to the binding process, and is obtained via synchronized oscillations of neural populations. The capacity limitation of STM may then result from the competition between oscillations representing items in STM. In the model which we investigate this is indeed the case.