Ede Lab

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ERC Starting Grant · 2019

Preparing memories for action: how visual working memories are sculpted by their anticipated use

Visual working memory allows us to hold in the fore of our mind those visual representations that are anticipated to become most relevant for ensuing behaviour – guiding our perception as well as action. Thus, while working memories inherently regard the past, their purpose is to guide adaptive behaviour in the near future. Yet, conventional studies of visual working memory consider memory retention (how we remember) regardless of anticipated memory use (what we remember for), and neglect that representations that are held in memory concurrently often serve distinct purposes and afford specific actions. I posit that the accessibility and neural recruitment of individual working memories are…

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