Working Memory: The Foundation of Adaptive Behavior
Behavioral choices are continuously made by all vertebrate animals on a moment-by-moment basis (Cisek & Kalaska, 2010). Working memory (WM) plays an important and remarkable role in the selection of behavior, holding and processing potential perception-action linkages, with choices occurring in an ongoing manner. When an organism can identify behavior with the greatest chance of success and act within the environment to access that behavior, the result is optimal adaptation.