How Memories are ‘Rotated’ to Avoid Sensory Interference

BrainPost, 20 April 2021

Being able to maintain short-term memory of recent stimuli like sights, sounds, and smells is vital to cognition. These memories provide the context for making important decisions and are especially critical in developing predictions about future events. Predictions are based on expectations, which one learns by associating the current stimulus with the memory of what happened previously. Although sensory and memory information both play a key role in cognition, scientists are unsure how the brain incorporates new sensory information and memory representations without interference. Read more.