Prioritizing information during working memory: beyond sustained internal attention

NE Myers, MG Stokes, AC Nobre - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2017 - cell.com
Working memory (WM) has limited capacity. This leaves attention with the important role of
allowing into storage only the most relevant information. It is increasingly evident that …

EEG dynamics reveal a dissociation between storage and selective attention within working memory

E Günseli, JJ Fahrenfort, D van Moorselaar… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Selective attention plays a prominent role in prioritizing information in working memory
(WM), improving performance for attended representations. However, it remains unclear …

Benefits of flexible prioritization in working memory can arise without costs.

NE Myers, SR Chekroud, MG Stokes… - Journal of Experimental …, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
Most recent models conceptualize working memory (WM) as a continuous resource, divided
up according to task demands. When an increasing number of items need to be …

Allocation of resources in working memory: Theoretical and empirical implications for visual search

S Huynh Cong, D Kerzel - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2021 - Springer
Recently, working memory (WM) has been conceptualized as a limited resource, distributed
flexibly and strategically between an unlimited number of representations. In addition to …

Working memory as internal attention: Toward an integrative account of internal and external selection processes

A Kiyonaga, T Egner - Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2013 - Springer
Working memory (WM) and attention have been studied as separate cognitive constructs,
although it has long been acknowledged that attention plays an important role in controlling …

Implicit working memory

RR Hassin, JA Bargh, AD Engell… - Consciousness and …, 2009 - Elsevier
Working Memory (WM) plays a crucial role in many high-level cognitive processes (eg,
reasoning, decision making, goal pursuit and cognitive control). The prevalent view holds …

Common neural mechanisms control attention and working memory

Y Zhou, CE Curtis, KK Sreenivasan… - Journal of …, 2022 - Soc Neuroscience
Although previous studies point to qualitative similarities between working memory (WM)
and attention, the degree to which these two constructs rely on shared neural mechanisms …

A meta-analysis of executive components of working memory

DE Nee, JW Brown, MK Askren, MG Berman… - Cerebral …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Working memory (WM) enables the online maintenance and manipulation of information
and is central to intelligent cognitive functioning. Much research has investigated executive …

[HTML][HTML] Attention for action in visual working memory

CNL Olivers, PR Roelfsema - Cortex, 2020 - Elsevier
From the conception of Baddeley's visuospatial sketchpad, visual working memory and
visual attention have been closely linked concepts. An attractive model has advocated unity …

Cognitive control over working memory biases of selection

A Kiyonaga, T Egner, D Soto - Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2012 - Springer
Across many studies, researchers have found that representations in working memory (WM)
can guide visual attention toward items that match the features of the WM contents. While …