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SUMMARY:Adaptive Cognition: How Flexible\, but Selective Memory Use Shapes
  Behaviour
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260601T160000
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DESCRIPTION:Our minds do more than simply react to the world\; they adapt 
 by flexibly controlling what we focus on and which memories we bring forwa
 rd in the moment. Drawing on recent empirical work from our group\, I will
  demonstrate how adaptive control is supported by both the internal select
 ion of memory representations and the strategic trade-off between memory-b
 ased and sensory-guided behaviour. I will show that internal attention sha
 pes successful retrieval across short- and long-term visuo-spatial memory 
 and we will see that these same internal attentional mechanisms extend to 
 language\, where the dynamic attentional selection of memory representatio
 ns supports sentence comprehension. Moving beyond traditional laboratory t
 asks\, I will then show that in immersive\, naturalistic settings\, people
  differ in how and when they rely on memory\, revealing stable\, adaptive 
 strategies that are largely independent of memory capacity. Finally\, we w
 ill see that across the lifespan\, older adults often underuse working mem
 ory in everyday contexts\, yet retain a strong ability to flexibly increas
 e memory use when task demands rise. Together\, these examples offer insig
 ht into how internal attention and flexible memory use support an adaptive
  behavioural repertoire in a complex world.
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LOCATION:The Life and Mind Building\, The Life and Mind Building South Par
 ks Road  Oxford Oxfordshire OX1 3RB United Kingdom
SPEAKER:Professor Dejan Draschkow
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