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Event Cache: An Independent Component in Working Memory

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Zhou Hui¹,Wu Jinglan¹,Li Jiaofeng¹,Pan Zhihe¹,Lu Jinying¹,Shen Mowei¹,Wang Teng-Fei¹,Hu Yuzheng¹,Gao Zaifeng¹

Affiliation:

1. Zhejiang University

Abstract

Abstract Working memory (WM) has been a major focus of cognitive science and neuroscience for the past 50 years. While most WM research has centered on the mechanisms of objects, there has been a lack of investigation into the cognitive and neural mechanisms of events, which are the building blocks of our experience. Employing confirmatory factor analysis and resting-state and task fMRI, our study demonstrated for the first time that events have an independent storage space within WM, known as the event cache, with distinct neural correlates compared to object storage in WM. The cerebellar network was found to be the most essential network for event cache, with the left cerebellum Crus I being particularly involved in encoding and maintaining events. Our findings shed critical light on the neuropsychological mechanism of WM by revealing event cache as an independent sub-component of WM and encourage the reconsideration of theoretical models for WM.

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Research Square Platform LLC

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