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September 29, 2025Open Access

Flexible Working Memory in the Peripheral Nervous System

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SYSihan YangYDYueying DongAKAnastasia Kiyonaga

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Overview

Experiment reveals how working memory features influence hand and eye movements, indicating adaptive behavior.

Key Points

  • Working memory content modifies motor activity in the peripheral nervous system, optimizing actions based on tasks.
  • Gaze patterns during memory tasks showed significant changes depending on the response format, indicating contextual adaptation.
  • Research involved tracking eye and hand movements in a delayed recall task to decode remembered orientations.
  • Individuals displayed strategic shifts in motor system usage, balancing visual memory representation across effectors.

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Yang et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68da58d8c1728099cfd11249https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.26.678884
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