Beyond routine maintenance: Current trends in working memory research

KCS Adam, LI Klatt, JA Miller, M Rösner… - Journal of Cognitive …, 2025 - direct.mit.edu
Working memory (WM) is an evolving concept. Our understanding of the neural functions
that support WM develops iteratively alongside the approaches used to study it, and both …

Working memory content is distorted by its use in perceptual comparisons

K Fukuda, AE Pereira, JM Saito, TY Tang… - Psychological …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Visual information around us is rarely static. To perform a task in such a dynamic
environment, we often have to compare current visual input with our working memory (WM) …

Integration of history information Drives Serial Dependence and Stabilizes Working Memory Representations

Z Zhang, JA Lewis-Peacock - Journal of Neuroscience, 2024 - jneurosci.org
Serial dependence has shown seemingly contradictory effects on visual perception and
working memory. While serial dependence promotes perpetual and mnemonic stability, it …

Assessing the interaction between working memory and perception through time

C Teng, SM Kaplan, S Shomstein, DJ Kravitz - Attention, Perception, & …, 2023 - Springer
Content maintained in visual working memory changes concurrent visual processing,
suggesting that visual working memory may recruit an overlapping neural representation …

Memory reports are biased by all relevant contents of working memory

P Zerr, S Gayet, S Van der Stigchel - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Sensory input is inherently noisy while the world is inherently predictable. When multiple
observations of the same object are available, integration of the available information …

Interference between items stored for distinct tasks in visual working memory

S Czoschke, B Peters, J Kaiser, C Bledowski - Attention, Perception, & …, 2023 - Springer
The action perspective on working memory suggests that memory representations are
coded according to their specific temporal and behavioral task demands. This stands in …

Comparing visual memories to similar visual inputs risks lasting memory distortion.

JM Saito, K Duncan, K Fukuda - Journal of Experimental …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Maintaining perceptual experiences in visual working memory (VWM) allows us to flexibly
accomplish various tasks, but some tasks come at a price. For example, comparing VWM …

Repulsion bias is insensitive to spatial attention, yet expands during active working memory maintenance

M Sun, Y Huang, H Ying - Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 2024 - Springer
Our brain sometimes represents visual information in a biased manner. Multiple visual
features presented simultaneously or sequentially may interact with each other when we …

Judgments during perceptual comparisons predict distinct forms of memory updating.

JM Saito, GY Bae, K Fukuda - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Comparing a visual memory with new visual stimuli can bias memory content, especially
when the new stimuli are perceived as similar. Perceptual comparisons of this kind may play …

Perceptual comparisons induce lasting and generalizing changes to face memory reports

J Teoh, JM Saito, Y Yeo, S Winter, K Fukuda - … Research: Principles and …, 2024 - Springer
Humans are often tasked to remember new faces so that they can recognize the faces later
in time. Previous studies found that memory reports for basic visual features (eg, colors and …