Nature Communications (Jul 2019)

Error-correcting dynamics in visual working memory

  • Matthew F. Panichello,
  • Brian DePasquale,
  • Jonathan W. Pillow,
  • Timothy J. Buschman

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11298-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Neural representations in working memory are susceptible to internal noise, which scales with memory load. Here, the authors show that attractor dynamics mitigate the influence of internal noise by pulling memories towards a few stable representations.