Representation and computation in visual working memory

PM Bays, S Schneegans, WJ Ma, TF Brady - Nature Human Behaviour, 2024 - nature.com
The ability to sustain internal representations of the sensory environment beyond immediate
perception is a fundamental requirement of cognitive processing. In recent years, debates …

The roles of attention, executive function and knowledge in cognitive ageing of working memory

M Naveh-Benjamin, N Cowan - Nature Reviews Psychology, 2023 - nature.com
Working memory is an ensemble of components that temporarily hold information in a
heightened state of availability for use in ongoing information processing. Working memory …

Revealing visual working memory operations with pupillometry: Encoding, maintenance, and prioritization

D Koevoet, C Strauch… - Wiley …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Pupillary dynamics reflect effects of distinct and important operations of visual working
memory: encoding, maintenance, and prioritization. Here, we review how pupil size predicts …

Brain mechanisms underlying the subjective experience of remembering

JS Simons, M Ritchey… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The ability to remember events in vivid, multisensory detail is a significant part of human
experience, allowing us to relive previous encounters and providing us with the store of …

Amplification in the evaluation of multiple emotional expressions over time

A Goldenberg, J Schöne, Z Huang, TD Sweeny… - Nature human …, 2022 - nature.com
Social interactions are dynamic and unfold over time. To make sense of social interactions,
people must aggregate sequential information into summary, global evaluations. But how do …

The relation between attention and memory

N Cowan, C Bao… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
The relation between attention and memory has long been deemed important for
understanding cognition, and it was heavily researched even in the first experimental …

The role of meaning in visual working memory: Real-world objects, but not simple features, benefit from deeper processing.

TF Brady, VS Störmer - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Visual working memory is a capacity-limited cognitive system used to actively store and
manipulate visual information. Visual working memory capacity is not fixed, but varies by …

Greater visual working memory capacity for visually matched stimuli when they are perceived as meaningful

IE Asp, VS Störmer, TF Brady - Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 2021 - direct.mit.edu
Almost all models of visual working memory—the cognitive system that holds visual
information in an active state—assume it has a fixed capacity: Some models propose a limit …

Stochastic sampling provides a unifying account of visual working memory limits

S Schneegans, R Taylor… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Research into human working memory limits has been shaped by the competition between
different formal models, with a central point of contention being whether internal …

The medial temporal lobe supports the quality of visual short-term memory representation

W Xie, JI Chapeton, S Bhasin, C Zawora… - Nature Human …, 2023 - nature.com
The quality of short-term memory (STM) underlies our ability to recall the exact details of a
recent event, yet how the human brain enables this core cognitive function remains poorly …