Working memory articles from across Nature Portfolio

It is unclear how cognitive computations are performed on sensory information. Here, neural evidence from working memory tasks suggests that the physical dimensions of cortical networks are used to update the status of sensory representations.

Posterior parietal cortex supports visual categorization in macaque monkeys. Here, the authors quantify low-dimensional neural population activity using tensor regression to find that long term training history impacts encoding of categorization.

Working memory, or the ability to temporarily hold information in mind, underlies many everyday behaviours. In this Review, Naveh-Benjamin and Cowan discuss age-related changes in working memory capacity and how working memory interacts with other cognitive capacities, relating both to theories of working memory.