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Working Out Working Memory: A Life’s Pursuit

December 19, 2018

working memory

Q&A with Earl Miller Working memory is key to our everyday survival — how we communicate, remember what we need to do, learn new things, and generally operate. It is also an aspect of cognition that is disrupted or dysfunctional in almost every neuropsychiatric disorder. Therefore, understanding how working memory works is of vital importance. […]

By lmunoz Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: cns 2019, george a. miller award, working memory Leave a Comment

Sizing Up Living Brain Tissue

March 17, 2016

What if we could reliably measure children’s brain circuits to predict reading ability just as we measure their height and weight to predict physical development? That is a question Brian Wandell has been exploring for the past 30 years – how to use neuroimaging techniques like MRI to quantify the properties and activity of living […]

By lmunoz Filed Under: featured Tagged With: children, computational neuroimaging, george a. miller award, neuroimaging, reading

Unraveling the Motor Movements That Connect All Primates

May 9, 2014

Q&A with Jon Kaas Grasping, reaching, climbing – these are just some of the basic instinctive behaviors that we see even in babies. While these movements are not uniquely human, how they unfold neurologically is unique to primates. All primates have these motor behaviors, or “motor primitives,” and they all occur in similar ways across […]

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