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SUBMITTER: Honig M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7165478 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Honig Maija M Ma Wei Ji WJ Fougnie Daryl D
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20200330 15
Working memory (WM) plays an important role in action planning and decision making; however, both the informational content of memory and how that information is used in decisions remain poorly understood. To investigate this, we used a color WM task in which subjects viewed colored stimuli and reported both an estimate of a stimulus color and a measure of memory uncertainty, obtained through a rewarded decision. Reported memory uncertainty is correlated with memory error, showing that people in ...[more]