ArticleeLife2022
Strategy-dependent effects of working-memory limitations on human perceptual decision-making.
Article in eLife, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Visual field map size constrains working memory precision.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Toward the cognitive modeling of dynamic decision making.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Article
- Crosstalk between delayed and immediate subjective evaluation tasks.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Disentangling sources of variability in decision-making.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2025Review
- Individual differences in belief updating and phasic arousal are related to psychosis proneness.Communications psychology · 2024Article
- Linking Cognitive Integrity to Working Memory Dynamics in the Aging Human Brain.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- MULTISCALE MOTION AND DEFORMATION OF BUMPS IN STOCHASTIC NEURAL FIELDS WITH DYNAMIC CONNECTIVITY.Multiscale modeling & simulation : a SIAM interdisciplinary journal · 2024Article
- Dimension-based retro-cue benefit in working memory does not require unfocused dimension removal.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Learning efficient representations of environmental priors in working memory.PLoS computational biology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Deliberative decisions based on an accumulation of evidence over time depend on working memory, and working memory has limitations, but how these limitations affect deliberative decision-making is not understood. We used human psychophysics to assess the impact of working-memory limitations on the fidelity of a continuous decision variable. Participants decided the average location of multiple visual targets. This computed, continuous decision variable degraded with time and capacity in a manner that depended critically on the strategy used to form the decision variable. This dependence reflected whether the decision variable was computed either: (1) immediately upon observing the evidence, and thus stored as a single value in memory; or (2) at the time of the report, and thus stored as multiple values in memory. These results provide important constraints on how the brain computes and maintains temporally dynamic decision variables.
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