When Natural Behavior Engages Working Memory.

ABSTRACT: Working memory (WM) enables temporary storage and manipulation of information,¹ supporting tasks that require bridging between perception and subsequent behavior. Its properties, such as its capacity, have been thoroughly investigated in highly controlled laboratory tasks.^1-8 Much less is known about the utilization and properties of WM in natural behavior,^9-11 when reliance on WM emerges as a natural consequence of interactions with the environment. We measured the trade-off between reliance on WM and gathering information externally during immersive behavior in an adapted object-copying task.¹² By manipulating the locomotive demands required for task completion, we could investigate whether and how WM utilization changed as gathering informatio

SUBMITTER: Draschkow D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7902904 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature