working memory
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Working Memory. Active short-term memory – Maintenance of task-relevant information online. Keeps relevant information available. Like RAM in a computer Close correspondence between working memory and consciousness. Delayed response tasks are used to WM in animals. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Working Memory
Active short-term memory – Maintenance of task-relevant informationonline. Keeps relevant information available.
Like RAM in a computer
Close correspondence between working memory and consciousness
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Delayed response tasks are used to WM in animals
Spatial delayed response
Object delayed response
also alternation tasks
In all cases, a response is based on some previous event that is relevant on the current trial, but not necessarily the next.
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Sample
What Delay
Test Array
Where Delay
What-Then-Where Task
4 objects and 4 locations were used
Choice
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Fixation (2000 msec)
Sample (500 msec)
Delay (1000 msec)
Test (500 msec)
S1
S2
S3
C1
C2
C3
Delayed paired associate task
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Important features of WM tasks
A cue is followed by a delay and then two or morechoices
Delay is relatively short (about a second to about a minute).
Small number of cues that are used repeatedly. A singlecue is only relevant for one trial at a time and animalsmust remember
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Delay tasks require that:
1. Animals discriminate among cues
2. Maintain memory across a delay
3. Evaluate choice phase and make correctdecision
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Brain areas involved in WM?
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Today’s take-home message:
Working memory is not simply short-term memory.It is an active process in which subjects must select andmaintain information. It is under volitional control.
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Two fundamental observations of behavior duringa typical WM task (delayed match-to-sample)
1. Performance increases with increases in sample
Correct choice
Sample Delay Test
Time
2. Performance decreases with increases in the delay
(Much of this work has been conducted in pigeons)
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Also:Match rule retained inreference memory.
The copy/trace model was meant to highlight what WMis NOT.
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Other observations of DMS performance:
1. Changing the illumination of the testing box during retention intervalinterferes w/ performance. (doesn't matter whether light->dark dark->light) This depends on degree of "surprise". It will habituate. Expected events have no effect on performance.
2. Surprising samples are more memorable.
Suggests that animals actively process info about the SM during delay.When surprised, attentional resources drawn to event, less left for actively maintaining the sample.
Another example: Directed Forgetting
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Next: Neurophysiologicalevidence for WM as anactive process
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Sample
What Delay
Test Array
Where Delay
What-Then-Where Task
4 objects and 4 locations were used
Choice
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'What" Delay Activity in PF Cortex: Single Cell
Time from sample onset (msec)
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Spikes per second
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Sample “A”
Sample “B”
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'What' and 'Where' Delay Activity: Single Cell
'What' Delay
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'Where' Delay
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A monkey test of attention
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Sample
Array Trials
Delay Test stimuli
Nonmatch Match
Remember the identity and location of only the relevant object
Cue Trials
750 msec 1500 msec Bar release
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Neural correlate of awareness in the prefrontal cortex
Time from sample onset (msec)
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Spikes per second
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Time from sample onset
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Sample Test
“A” alone “B” alone
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Neural correlate of awareness in the prefrontal cortex
Time from sample onset (msec)
0 1000 2000
Spikes per second
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Time from sample onset
0 1000 2000
Sample Test
Attend “A” “A” alone “B” alone
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Neural correlate of awareness in the prefrontal cortex
Time from sample onset (msec)
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Spikes per second
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Time from sample onset
0 1000 2000
Sample Test
Attend “A” “A” alone Attend “B” “B” alone
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WM is not a passive copy of a sensory stimulusinstead an active process So, in contrast to the copy/trace model, WM is:1. Active - Ss actively select, encode and maintain, what is heldin WM.2. Not a simple match rule. Simple maintenance of record of samplethen application of a matching rule. Rather something more complexis going on. One thing that may be happening is that instead ofa matching rule, Ss develop an expectation, they anticipate whatis going to happen and base their behavior on this expectation
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What is info is maintained in the delayof WM tasks?
Retrospective versus Prospective processing
Correct choice
Sample Delay Test
Time
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There is a considerable amount of evidence that animals tend to relyon a prospective code for performance in delay tasks.
In symbolic DMS, increasing the delay between sample and choice stimuli causes an increase confusions between similar choice stimuli, not similar samples.
Fixation (2000 msec)
Sample (500 msec)
Delay (1000 msec)
Test (500 msec)
S1
S2
S3
C1
C2
C3
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Fixation (2000 msec)
Sample (500 msec)
Delay (1000 msec)
Test (500 msec)
S1
S2
S3
C1
C2
C3
Delayed paired associate task
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Reaction Time [msec]
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Time [msec]
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Conclusions
Working memory is an active process. It is under volitionalcontrol and can be contrasted with passive or automaticforms of memory.
Working memory is prospective. It is geared toward the future, notmerely a record of past events.