Sensory-memory interactions via modular structure explain errors in visual working memory.

ABSTRACT: Errors in stimulus estimation reveal how stimulus representation changes during cognitive processes. Repulsive bias and minimum variance observed near cardinal axes are well-known error patterns typically associated with visual orientation perception. Recent experiments suggest that these errors continuously evolve during working memory, posing a challenge that neither static sensory models nor traditional memory models can address. Here, we demonstrate that these evolving errors, maintaining characteristic shapes, require network interaction between two distinct modules. Each module fulfills efficient sensory encoding and memory maintenance, which cannot be achieved simultaneously in a single-module network. The sensory module exhibits heterogeneous tuning with strong inhibitory modulatio

SUBMITTER: Yang J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11466453 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature