Interareal coupling reduces encoding variability in multi-area models of spatial working memory

Interareal coupling reduces encoding variability in multi-area models of spatial working memory

Persistent activity observed during delayed-response tasks for spatial working memory (Funahashi et al., 1989) has commonly been modeled by recurrent networks whose dynamics is described as a bump attractor (Compte et al., 2000). We examine the effects of interareal architecture on the dynamics of bump attractors in stochastic neural fields. Lateral inhibitory synaptic structure in each area su...

Cortico-thalamocortical operations of multi-target spatial working memory

Representation and manipulation of multiple target locations would be important aspects of spatial working memory [Tanaka 2002a, b]. It is, however, unknown how such processes are performed in the prefrontal cortical, corticocortical, and cortico-subcortical circuits. We here propose a model of the prefrontal cortical and cortico-thalamocortical circuits that represent and manipulate multiple t...

Applying Spatial Geostatistical Analysis Models for Evaluating Variability of Soil Properties in Eastern Shiraz, Iran

ABSTRACT- The information on the spatial properties of soil is vital to improve soil management and to increase the crop productivity. Geostatistical analysis technique is one of the most important methods for determining the spatial properties of soil. The aim of this study was to investigate spatial variability of soil chemical and physical attributes for field management in eastern Shiraz, I...

Rehearsal in spatial working memory.

This article reports 3 experiments that tested a hypothesis regarding the nature of rehearsal in spatial working memory, one in which discrete shifts of spatial selective attention mediate the maintenance of location-specific representations. Experiment 1 demonstrated increases in visual processing efficiency for locations held in working memory, which suggested that attention was oriented towa...

Visuo-spatial Working Memory