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Multiple gates on working memory

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Chatham, Christopher H, Badre, David·2015·Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

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The contexts for action may be only transiently visible, accessible, and relevant. The corticobasal ganglia (BG) circuit addresses these demands by allowing the right motor plans to drive action at the right times, via a BG-mediated gate on motor representations. A long-standing hypothesis posits these same circuits are replicated in more rostral brain regions to support gating of cognitive representations. Key evidence now supports the prediction that BG can act as a gate on the input to working memory, as a gate on its output, and as a means of reallocating working memory representations rendered irrelevant by recent events. These discoveries validate key tenets of many computational models, circumscribe motor and cognitive models of recurrent cortical dynamics alone, and identify novel directions for research on the mechanisms of higher-level cognition.

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  • According to prominent neurocomputational models, a blunted phasic dopamine response should hinder gate opening.

    “According to prominent neurocomputational models (Chatham & Badre, 2015; Frank et al., 2001; Hazy et al., 2006; O’Reilly, 2006), a blunted phasic response should hinder gate opening.”

    From Baseline-dependent effect of dopamine’s precursor L-tyrosine on working memory gating but not updating (2020) · cites this paper as Chatham & Badre, 2015

    In “Input gating of working memory” (page not available), the paper says Go-cell activity favors gate opening and working-memory updating, and reports updating deficits with dopamine depletion. It does not specifically say that a blunted phasic dopamine response would hinder gate opening. (LLM, conf=0.84)

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  • According to prominent neurocomputational models, the balance between maintenance and flexible updating in working memory is controlled by an input-gating mechanism that dynamically regulates access of input to working memory.

    “According to prominent neurocomputational models (Chatham & Badre, 2015; Frank, Loughry, & O’Reilly, 2001; Hazy et al., 2006; O’Reilly, 2006), the balance between the functionally opposite states of robust maintenance and flexible updating is controlled by an input-gating mechanism, which dynamically regulates the access of input to WM.”

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Authors
Chatham, C. H., & Badre, D.
Affiliations
Brown University (US)
Corresponding author
  • Chatham, Christopher H
  • Badre, David
Venue
Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2015-02
Volume
1
Pages
23-31
ISSN
2352-1546 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2112853433
Cited by
268
References
68
Citations by year
2026: 17 · 2025: 33 · 2024: 53 · 2023: 25 · 2022: 20 · 2021: 31 · 2020: 31 · 2019: 11 · 2018: 20 · 2017: 13 · 2016: 10 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 1
FWCI
0.84
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institute of Neurological Disease and Stroke (R01 NS065046)
  • Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (BR2011-010)
  • James S. McDonnell Foundation (220020332)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
Keywords
working memory, basal ganglia, cortico-basal ganglia circuits, motor planning, memory representation, cognitive modeling, higher-level cognition

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