Errors in short-term memory increase with the quantity of information stored, limiting the
complexity of cognition and behavior. In visual memory, attempts to account for errors in …

This opinion article argues that noise (randomness) in neural activity is the limiting factor in
visual working memory (WM), determining how accurately we can maintain stable internal …

Short-term memories are thought to be maintained in the form of sustained spiking activity in
neural populations. Decreases in recall precision observed with increasing number of …

Research into human working memory limits has been shaped by the competition between
different formal models, with a central point of contention being whether internal …

Working memory is critical to cognition, decoupling behavior from the immediate world. Yet,
it is imperfect; internal noise introduces errors into memory representations. Such errors …

Recent studies suggest that the temporary storage of visual detail in working memory is
mediated by sensory recruitment or sustained patterns of stimulus-specific activation within …

Previous memoranda can interfere with the memorization or storage of new information, a
concept known as proactive interference. Studies of proactive interference typically use …

Human brains are finite, and thus have bounded capacity. An efficient strategy for a capacity-
limited agent is to continuously adapt by dynamically reallocating capacity in a task …

Our capacity to remember and manipulate objects in working memory (WM) is severely
limited. However, this capacity limitation is unlikely to be fixed because behavioral models …

Recent neurophysiological and imaging studies have investigated how neural
representations underlying working memory (WM) are dynamically updated for objects …