Topic: Spatial computing

To realize goal-directed behavior an executive control mechanism needs to coordinate when and which pieces of working memory (WM) information are operated on in the specific task context. For that, fundamental WM flexibility is desirable so that a given task learned using a specific set of WM items can be immediately performed on novel items too without any extra training (generalization in the spirit of zero-shot learning). Here we apply the computational paradigm of Spatial computing as a candidate mechanism for such generalization in a Delayed Match-To-Sample Task (DMTS), using an attracto