One of the most fascinating things about the brain is its flexibility — how effortlessly it can switch between behaviors, thoughts, and goals. In our new paper, published in Nature Communications , we set out to understand how this happens at the level of neural networks. Using a combination of large-scale electrophysiology and cortex-wide calcium imaging in mice, we found that the brain routes information through what we call “multiplexed subspaces” — overlapping but distinc

In a recent study published in Cell , researchers led by Caroline Jahn and Tim Buschman explored how the brain learns and utilizes attentional templates to make value-based decisions. The study involved training monkeys to perform a visual search task that required them to learn new attentional templates repeatedly. Neural recordings revealed that these templates were represented in a structured manner across the prefrontal and parietal cortex, with perceptually similar templ

A new study with Matt Panichello investigates how the brain controls the contents of working memory. We trained monkeys to switch between...

A new manuscript from Camden MacDowell shows the 'song' of neural activity in the brain is composed of a few repeated 'chords'. Using...

A new manuscript from Matt Panichello, Brian DePasquale, Jonathan Pillow, and Tim Buschman shows how items held in working memory change...

A Flexible Model of Working Memory by Bouchacourt & Buschman has been published in Neuron. It is available here!