The role of conjunctive representations in prioritizing and selecting planned actions.

ABSTRACT: For flexible goal-directed behavior, prioritizing and selecting a specific action among multiple candidates are often important. Working memory has long been assumed to play a role in prioritization and planning, while bridging cross-temporal contingencies during action selection. However, studies of working memory have mostly focused on memory for single components of an action plan, such as a rule or a stimulus, rather than management of all of these elements during planning. Therefore, it is not known how post-encoding prioritization and selection operate on the entire profile of representations for prospective actions. Here, we assessed how such control processes unfold over action representations, highlighting the role of conjunctive representations that nonlinearly integrate task-rel

SUBMITTER: Kikumoto A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9651952 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature