<commit_before>---
layout: post-no-feature
title: "Deciding to Remember: Memory Maintenance as a Markov Decision Process"
description:
category: papers
type: Paper
journal: CogSci 2016
pdf: suchow2016mdp.pdf
tags: [memory maintenance, Markov Decision Process,
cognitive control, working memory]
---

Working memory is a limited-capacity form of human memory
that actively holds information in mind. Which memories
ought to be maintained? We approach this question by showing
an equivalence between active maintenance in working memory
and a Markov decision process in which, at each moment,
a cognitive control mechanism selects a memory as the target<commit_msg>Improve title capitalization for consistency<commit_after>---
layout: post-no-feature
title: "Deciding to remember: memory maintenance as a Markov Decision Process"
description:
category: papers
type: Paper
journal: CogSci 2016
pdf: suchow2016mdp.pdf
tags: [memory maintenance, Markov Decision Process,
cognitive control, working memory]
---

Working memory is a limited-capacity form of human memory
that actively holds information in mind. Which memories
ought to be maintained? We approach this question by showing
an equivalence between active maintenance in working memory
and a Markov decision process in which, at each moment,
a cognitive control mechanism selects a memory as the target
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