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Joint representation of working memory and uncertainty in human cortex

2021-04-05

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Neural representations of visual working memory (VWM) are noisy, and thus, decisions based on VWM are inevitably subject to uncertainty. However, the mechanisms by which the brain simultaneously represents the content and uncertainty of memory remain largely unknown. Here, inspired by the theory of probabilistic population codes, we test the hypothesis that the human brain represents an item maintained in VWM as a...

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Literature Corpus work: ee32ec85-1d09-5eae-8630-ff9e3d043451
DOI: 10.1101/2021.04.05.438511

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