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The Northwestern University Psychology Colloquium Series Presents:

Steven J. Luck, Distinguished Professor of Psychology

Director, Center for Mind & Brain, University of California, Davis

"Visual Working Memory Capacity: From Psychophysics and Neurobiology to Individual Differences and Psychopathology"

Abstract: Visual working memory is a short-term storage system that allows visual information to be buffered briefly in the service of cognitive tasks. I will describe research addressing the nature of the representations that are stored in this system, how this system works as a storage buffer for a variety of tasks, and the neural mechanisms that maintain the information in memory. I will discuss how individual differences in visual working memory capacity are related to higher-level cognitive abilities and how capacity is impaired in people with schizophrenia.

Thursday, September 22, 2016

4:00 pm, Swift Hall Room 107

Reception to follow