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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Science
  • Computational Neuroscience

Background:

  • Working memory (WM) relies on persistent neural activity, primarily studied in the prefrontal cortex (PFC).
  • Existing theories often assume stable neural codes for WM, but empirical evidence shows dynamic activity in PFC.
  • The hierarchical variation and drivers of WM dynamics across the cortical visual system remain largely unknown.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the dynamics of WM representations across the human cortical hierarchy.
  • To determine how neural codes for WM content evolve during memory delays.
  • To understand the factors driving these neural dynamics in WM.

Main Methods:

  • Decoding WM content from fMRI responses across multiple human visual field maps.
  • Utilizing geometric analyses of neural subspaces to compare dynamics across cortical areas.
  • Employing population receptive field models to visualize and interpret neural dynamics.

Main Results:

  • WM representations exhibit both stable and dynamic neural codes across the visual hierarchy.
  • Early visual cortex demonstrates significantly stronger WM dynamics compared to higher-level visual and frontoparietal areas.
  • Neural representations transform from a precise spatial code to a dynamic vector aligned with the upcoming saccade trajectory.

Conclusions:

  • WM dynamics vary systematically across the cortical hierarchy, with greater dynamics in earlier visual areas.
  • Neural codes dynamically transform during WM delays, shifting from sensory-specific to behaviorally relevant representations.
  • WM theories must incorporate both sensory features and their task-relevant abstractions to explain observed neural dynamics.