Banishing the Homunculus

Banishing the Homunculus: Making Working Memory Work
Hazy, T.E., Frank, M.J. & O'Reilly, R.C. (2006)
Neuroscience.

An important paper that outlines six key functional demands underlying working memory and presents a working memory model based on representations in the prefrontal cortex which are dynamically gated by the basal ganglia (PBWM). Working memory is described as controlled activation of stable configurations that exist throughout the cortex (rather than a separate module with information being moved between long-term memory and working memory bufers).