Beyond slots and resources: Grounding cognitive concepts in neural dynamics

JS Johnson, VR Simmering, AT Buss - Attention, Perception, & …, 2014 - Springer
Research over the past decade has suggested that the ability to hold information in visual
working memory (VWM) may be limited to as few as three to four items. However, the precise …

[HTML][HTML] Working memory retrieval as a decision process

B Pearson, J Raškevičius, PM Bays, Y Pertzov… - Journal of …, 2014 - iovs.arvojournals.org
Working memory (WM) is a core cognitive process fundamental to human behavior, yet the
mechanisms underlying it remain highly controversial. Here we provide a new framework for …

The contralateral delay activity tracks the sequential loading of objects into visual working memory, unlike lateralized alpha oscillations

S Wang, J Rajsic, GF Woodman - Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2019 - direct.mit.edu
Visual working memory temporarily represents a continuous stream of task-relevant objects
as we move through our environment performing tasks. Previous work has identified …

α power modulation and event-related slow wave provide dissociable correlates of visual working memory

K Fukuda, I Mance, EK Vogel - Journal of Neuroscience, 2015 - Soc Neuroscience
Traditionally, electrophysiological correlates of visual working memory (VWM) capacity have
been characterized using a lateralized VWM task in which participants had to remember …

[HTML][HTML] Temporal codes of visual working memory in the human cerebral cortex: Brain rhythms associated with high memory capacity

Y Noguchi, R Kakigi - Neuroimage, 2020 - Elsevier
Visual working memory (vWM) is an important ability required for various cognitive tasks
although its neural underpinnings remain unclear. While many studies have focused on …

Within-category decoding of information in different attentional states in short-term memory

JJ LaRocque, AC Riggall, SM Emrich… - Cerebral …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
A long-standing assumption of cognitive neuroscience has been that working memory (WM)
is accomplished by sustained, elevated neural activity. More recently, theories of WM have …

The steady-state visual evoked potential reveals neural correlates of the items encoded into visual working memory

DJ Peterson, G Gurariy, GG Dimotsantos, H Arciniega… - Neuropsychologia, 2014 - Elsevier
Visual working memory (VWM) capacity limitations are estimated to be~ 4 items. Yet, it
remains unclear why certain items from a given memory array may be successfully retrieved …

Visual working memory for simple and complex features: An fMRI study

JH Song, Y Jiang - Neuroimage, 2006 - Elsevier
Visual working memory (VWM) allows us to hold visual information briefly in our minds after
its disappearance. It is important for bridging the present to the immediate past. Previous …

Redefining visual working memory: A cognitive-strategy, brain-region approach

J Pearson, R Keogh - Current Directions in Psychological …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
The ability to remember and manipulate visual information is pervasive and is associated
with many cognitive abilities. Yet despite the importance of visual working memory (VWM) …

Mapping brain activation and information during category-specific visual working memory

DEJ Linden, NN Oosterhof, C Klein… - Journal of …, 2012 - journals.physiology.org
How is working memory for different visual categories supported in the brain? Do the same
principles of cortical specialization that govern the initial processing and encoding of visual …