Modeling visual working memory with the MemToolbox

• DOI: 10.1167/13.10.9
• Publication Date: 2013-08-21T03:42:07Z
• Authors: J. W. Suchow; T. F. Brady; D. Fougnie; G. A. Alvarez
• Keywords: Neurons; Time Factors; Statistics as Topic; 05 social sciences; 150; Bayes Theorem; Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; Models, Theoretical; 004; visual working memory; Memory, Short-Term; model comparison; Animals; Humans; 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences; Neural Networks, Computer; mixture models; Software

The MemToolbox is a collection of MATLAB functions for modeling visual working memory. In support of its goal to provide a full suite of data analysis tools, the toolbox includes implementations of popular models of visual working memory, real and simulated data sets, Bayesian and maximum likelihood estimation procedures for fitting models to data, visualizations of data and fit, validation routines, model comparison metrics, and experiment scripts. The MemToolbox is released under the permissive BSD license and is available at http://memtoolbox.org.