Freek van Ede, PhD, (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands) delivers a Young Investigator Award talk at CNS 2023 in San Francisco.
Abstract: Working memory regards the past but serves the future. Adopting this future-focused perspective shifts the narrative of working memory as a temporary storage with limited capacity to working memory as an anticipatory buffer that enables us to prepare for potential and sequential upcoming behaviour. In such a framework, selective attention plays a vital role because it serves not only to bring selected information into working memory but also to dynamically prioritise internal representations for guiding anticipated behaviour. In my talk, I will present a series of our recent studies that have started to reveal emerging principles of a working memory that looks forward - highlighting, amongst others, how working memory incorporates actions rather than merely preceding them. Collectively, these studies show how studying the dynamics of working memory, selective attention, and action together paves way for a rich and integrated understanding of how mind serves behaviour.
15 сен 2024
