The lab of Michael Frank has reconciled theories of how humans store and retrieve information in the short-term, a process called working memory, in a new biologically-inspired computational model. The findings have implications for dopamine-related disorders like Parkinson’s disease, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and schizophrenia.

A study by cognitive scientists at Brown University’s Carney Institute for Brain Science deciphered how the human brain represents the complex social connections among acquaintances, friends, and friends of friends.