14 Jul 2015
July 14, 2015

Spikes not slots: noise in neural populations limits working memory

Neuroscience

The limited capacity of working memory has sometimes been explained as a limited number of memory “slots”.  Paul Bays argues that working memory capacity is due to sharing of a continuous resource, namely a fixed amount of neural activity.  Noise in this activity is the limiting factor.

Bays, Paul M. “Spikes not slots: noise in neural populations limits working memory.” Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2015).

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