NEW! Relying on the external world after stroke: Individual variability in compensation strategies in working memory use

To understand how stroke patients use their working memory when less-than-full-loading is allowed, we recorded eye-movements of patients (n = 15) and controls (n = 38) as an index of offloading. Both patients and controls avoided working memory loading and relied heavily on offloading. Strategies varied at the individual level, with a subset of patients showing excessive offloading. Interestingly, these patients were also those who showed abnormal capacity scores, but the reverse was not necessarily true.