In conclusion, our findings highlight WM as a dynamic system that reacts to changes in goals and task contexts.

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The results reveal that though stimulus-specific information can be detected in both visual & frontal cortices, the latter exhibits stronger representation in a more cognitively challenging task & tracks performance; while the opposite is true for the visual cortex in a simple maintenance task.
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Across two fMRI experiments & an RNN stimulation, we showed that control demands may be the key to understand the differential functions of stimulus representation found across the brain in goal-directed working memory (WM).

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Key takeaways:
1️⃣ Frontal regions stored task goals consistent with the designed structure during pure maintenance.
2️⃣ Theta-band communication/fMRI connectivity relay task-congruent goal information to visual areas, where they transform the remembered visual details to guide response.

We designed an interesting task where participants memorized both concrete visual details (e.g., an object’s color/size) and abstract goals (e.g., “change the object in certain direction”), which were sampled from a defined structural space (2-D in our case).

I would love to be added.

Amazing thank you!

Hello Rebecca, I am a post doc whose main research interest is working memory. Could I also be added to this list?