Lauren Williams receives US-Israel Binational Science Foundation Travel grant

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Awarded from US-Israel Binational Science Foundation

Our mental representations must adapt to new information and task goals, but which factors determine how these changes are represented in working memory (WM)? In our limited capacity WM systems, new information can either integrate into existing mental representations (WM updating) or replace existing representations (WM resetting). In a collaboration between Dr. Drew’s lab and Dr. Roy Luria’s lab in Tel Aviv, we are investigating the factors that delineate these two WM operations using a neural marker of the WM resetting process. The travel grant provided by the Binational Science Foundation will fund my visit to Israel in the spring to work on this collaboration.