Working Memory: Flexible but Finite

Kirsten C S Adam; John T Serences

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2019.06.025

Working Memory: Flexible but Finite

Neuron. 2019 Jul 17;103(2):184-185. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2019.06.025.

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Kirsten C S Adam¹, John T Serences²

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¹ Department of Psychology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA; Institute for Neural Computation, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA. Electronic address: kadam@ucsd.edu.
² Department of Psychology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA; Institute for Neural Computation, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA; Neurosciences Graduate Program, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.

Abstract

There are inherent trade-offs between the flexibility and the capacity of working memory, or the ability to temporarily hold information "in mind." In a recent issue of Neuron, Bouchacourt and Buschman (2019) present a new model of working memory that demonstrates how coordinated activity between specialized sensory networks and flexible higher-order networks may support these competing constraints.

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