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    • Human Motor Control

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    • Working memory (WM) representations are adaptable and can be distributed across brain regions to guide behavior.
    • Neural signals in WM can shift based on task demands, potentially influencing peripheral effectors.
    • Oculomotor signals, like saccade biases, have shown potential to track visuo-spatial WM features, but their functional significance is unclear.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To investigate if working memory content is adaptively distributed across peripheral motor systems (eye and hand movements) based on behavioral demands.
    • To determine if visual working memory features are expressed in eye and hand movements during the delay period.
    • To examine if the distribution of peripheral motor activity shifts according to task context.

    Main Methods:

    • Human participants performed a delayed recall task involving remembering orientation.
    • Response format was manipulated (drawing a line vs. adjusting a wheel) to alter behavioral demands.
    • Eye-tracking and stylus-tracking were used to record gaze and hand movements during the WM delay.

    Main Results:

    • Remembered orientations were decodable from subtle inflections in both gaze and hand movements during the delay period.
    • Decoding strength varied by response format: gaze patterns better reflected memory in the wheel condition, while hand movements were better in the draw condition.
    • Individual differences showed a trade-off: greater gaze benefits in the wheel condition correlated with greater hand benefits in the draw condition.

    Conclusions:

    • Visually encoded working memory content is adaptively allocated to task-relevant peripheral effectors.
    • Peripheral motor activity, including eye and hand movements, dynamically reflects and balances working memory representations based on behavioral needs.
    • This adaptive distribution optimizes working memory function for prospective action guidance.