Probabilistic working memory representations in human cortex guide behavior
Zhou, Y.; Curtis, C. E.; Fougnie, D.; Sreenivasan, K. K.
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Models of working memory make fundamentally different commitments to the architecture of individual memories. Information-sparse models conceptualize individual memories single point estimates agnostic to meta-cognitive variables such a uncertainty. In contrast, information-rich models propose memories re encoded s probability distributions over feature space that embed memory uncertainty in the shape of the distribution To distinguish these accounts, constructed probability distributions of memory from participants iterative reports of motion direction each trial. Remarkably, the idiosyncratic shape of these distributions (e.g., asymmetry) single trials matched the shape of neural probability distributions decoded from fMRI patterns measured from occipital and parietal cortex. Consistent with information-rich models, the neural representation of n individual memory encodes mor than the memorized feature; its variance (i.e., width and asymmetry) encodes idiosyncrasies whose read-out predicts memory behavior.
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