Hey, look over there: Distraction effects on rapid sequence recall
Miner, Daniel ; Tetzlaff, Christian
Citable Link (URL):http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gs-1/17415
Journal Article (Published version)
First published (peer reviewed)
PLOS ONE 2020; 15(4) p.1-22: Art. e0223743
Abstract
In the course of everyday life, the brain must store and recall a huge variety of representations
of stimuli which are presented in an ordered or sequential way. The processes by which the ordering of these various things is stored and recalled are moderately well understood. We use here a computational model of a cortex-like recurrent neural network adapted by a multitude of plasticity mechanisms. We first demonstrate the learning of a sequence. Then, we examine the influence of different types of distractors on the network dynamics during the recall of the encoded ordered information being ordered in a sequence. We are able to broadly arrive at two distinct effect-categories for distractors, arrive at a basic understanding of why this is so, and predict what distractors will fall into each category.
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