{"id":223904,"date":"2025-10-24T04:24:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T09:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/like-radar-a-brain-wave-sweeps-a-cortical-region-to-read-out-information-held-in-working-memory"},"modified":"2025-10-24T04:24:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T09:24:45","slug":"like-radar-a-brain-wave-sweeps-a-cortical-region-to-read-out-information-held-in-working-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/like-radar-a-brain-wave-sweeps-a-cortical-region-to-read-out-information-held-in-working-memory","title":{"rendered":"Like radar, a brain wave sweeps a cortical region to read out information held in working memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/like-radar-a-brain-wave-sweeps-a-cortical-region-to-read-out-information-held-in-working-memory2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imagine you are a security guard in one of those casino heist movies where your ability to recognize an emerging crime will depend on whether you notice a subtle change on one of the many security monitors arrayed on your desk. That\u2019s a challenge of visual working memory.<\/p>\n<p>According to a new study by neuroscientists in The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT, the ability to quickly spot the anomaly could depend on a theta-frequency brain wave (3\u20136 Hz) that scans through a region of the cortex that maps your field of view.<\/p>\n<p>The findings in animals, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/neuron\/fulltext\/S0896-6273(25)00744-5\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i><i>Neuron<\/i>,<\/i> help to explain how the brain implements visual working memory and why performance is both limited and variable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine you are a security guard in one of those casino heist movies where your ability to recognize an emerging crime will depend on whether you notice a subtle change on one of the many security monitors arrayed on your desk. That\u2019s a challenge of visual working memory. According to a new study by neuroscientists [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965,47,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","category-neuroscience","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}