Drs. Zhang & Luck publish working memory paper in Nature
CMB postdoc Weiwei Zhang and his mentor Steve Luck publish new findings about visual working memory in Nature
In this research, published on 2 April 2008 as an advance online publication, Drs. Zhang and Luck have addressed a fundamental question about the nature of visual working memory representations. These memory representations are created in less than 1/10 of a second and typically survive no more than a few seconds. They allow us to create a continuous, coherent perception of the visual environment even though the actual visual input is frequently disrupted by eye movements and blinks. In their new research, Drs. Luck and Zhang demonstrate that this memory system stores a small number of fixed-resolution representations and is incapable of storing a large number of objects by trading off quality for quantity.
See the paper online at nature.com
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Drs. Zhang & Luck publish working memory paper in Nature