How do you decide whether to persist with what you’re doing or switch to something else? Neuroscientists believe that the answer to this question may lie in a canonical computation in the brain that guides behaviour under uncertainty. To explore this possibility, SWC Senior Research Fellow Dr Michael Bukwich has been studying how animals allocate more time to foraging in locations where they can acquire more resources.

From recalling a shopping list to remembering a six-digit activation code, we rely on our working memory every day. Surprisingly, the mechanisms underpinning this ability are not well understood. During a seminar at SWC, Professor Peyman Golshani presented his latest research into how working memory is represented in the brain during learning.