Working memory is one of the most important areas of our memory system and vital if we're to successfully navigate through our world. It can be thought of as the ability to hold and use a limited ...

Michael Frank, director of the Carney Center for Computational Brain Science and principal investigator of the paper, explained that the impact of the model extends far beyond theoretical neuroscience ...

"We designed a task that repeatedly induced errors in how participants directed spatial attention to a particular location," explained Brissenden. "We then intermittently measured working memory ...