There is broad agreement that working memory is closely related to attention. This article
delineates several theoretical options for conceptualizing this link, and evaluates their …

Any mature field of research in psychology—such as short-term/working memory—is
characterized by a wealth of empirical findings. It is currently unrealistic to expect a theory to …

Persistent spiking has been thought to underlie working memory (WM). However, virtually all
of the evidence for this comes from studies that averaged spiking across time and across …

Visual working memory is the cognitive system that holds visual information active to make it
resistant to interference from new perceptual input. Information about simple stimuli—colors …

Transcranial photobiomodulation (tPBM) is a safe and noninvasive intervention that has
shown promise for improving cognitive performance. Whether tPBM can modulate brain …

The continuities between human and animal minds are increasingly well understood. This
has led many people to make claims about consciousness in animals, which has often been …

There has been a long-lasting debate about whether salient stimuli, such as uniquely
colored objects, have the ability to automatically distract us. To resolve this debate, it has …

We investigated whether standardized neuropsychological tests and experimental cognitive
paradigms measure the same cognitive faculties. Specifically, do neuropsychological tests …

The ability to sustain internal representations of the sensory environment beyond immediate
perception is a fundamental requirement of cognitive processing. In recent years, debates …

Although researchers have been recording the human electroencephalogram (EEG) for
almost a century, we still do not completely understand what cognitive processes are …