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Brain Meeting: Rosanne Rademaker

08 November 2024, 3:15 pm–4:15 pm

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Behaviour needs working memory: Flexible formats and loci of visual working memory

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12 Queen Square
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WC1N 3AR
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Neural correlates of visual working memory have been found in early visual, parietal, and prefrontal regions. These findings have spurred fruitful debate over how and where in the brain memories might be represented. Here, I will present data from multiple experiments to demonstrate how a focus on behavioural requirements can unveil a more comprehensive understanding of the visual working memory system. Specifically, items in working memory must be maintained in a highly robust manner, resilient to interference. At the same time, storage mechanisms must preserve a high degree of flexibility in case of changing behavioural goals. Several examples will be explored in which visual memory representations are shown to undergo transformations, and even shift their cortical locus alongside their coding format based on specifics of the task.

 

 

About the Speaker

Rosanne Rademaker

Max Planck group leader at Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience