The neural basis of swap errors in working memory.

When making decisions in a cluttered world, humans and other animals often have to hold multiple items in memory at once-such as the different items on a shopping list. Psychophysical experiments in humans and other animals have shown remembered stimuli can sometimes become confused, with participants reporting chimeric stimuli composed of features from different stimuli. In particular, subjects will often make "swap errors" where they misattribute a feature from one object as belonging to another object.

Reward Modulates Visual Responses in the Superficial Superior Colliculus of Mice.

The processing of sensory input is constantly adapting to behavioral demands and internal states. The drive to obtain reward, e.g.

The neural basis of swap errors in working memory.

When making decisions in a cluttered world, humans and other animals often have to hold multiple items in memory at once - such as the different items on a shopping list. Psychophysical experiments in humans and other animals have shown remembered stimuli can sometimes become confused, with participants reporting chimeric stimuli composed of features from different stimuli. In particular, subjects will often make "swap errors" where they misattribute a feature from one object as belonging to another object.