The distributed nature of working memory

TB Christophel, PC Klink, B Spitzer… - Trends in cognitive …, 2017 - cell.com
Studies in humans and non-human primates have provided evidence for storage of working
memory contents in multiple regions ranging from sensory to parietal and prefrontal cortex …

Beyond the status quo: a role for beta oscillations in endogenous content (re) activation

B Spitzer, S Haegens - eneuro, 2017 - eneuro.org
Among the rhythms of the brain, oscillations in the beta frequency range (∼ 13–30 Hz) have
been considered the most enigmatic. Traditionally associated with sensorimotor functions …

Modality-specific tracking of attention and sensory statistics in the human electrophysiological spectral exponent

L Waschke, T Donoghue, L Fiedler, S Smith, DD Garrett… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
A hallmark of electrophysiological brain activity is its 1/f-like spectrum–power decreases with
increasing frequency. The steepness of this 'roll-off'is approximated by the spectral …

Temporal expectations guide dynamic prioritization in visual working memory through attenuated α oscillations

F van Ede, M Niklaus, AC Nobre - Journal of Neuroscience, 2017 - Soc Neuroscience
Although working memory is generally considered a highly dynamic mnemonic store,
popular laboratory tasks used to understand its psychological and neural mechanisms (such …

Oscillatory brain activity and maintenance of verbal and visual working memory: A systematic review

YG Pavlov, B Kotchoubey - Psychophysiology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Brain oscillations likely play a significant role in the storage of information in working
memory (WM). Despite the wide popularity of the topic, current attempts to summarize the …

Temporal dynamics of attention during encoding versus maintenance of working memory: complementary views from event-related potentials and alpha-band …

NE Myers, L Walther, G Wallis, MG Stokes… - Journal of cognitive …, 2015 - direct.mit.edu
Working memory (WM) is strongly influenced by attention. In visual WM tasks, recall
performance can be improved by an attention-guiding cue presented before encoding …

Turning touch into perception

R Romo, R Rossi-Pool - Neuron, 2020 - cell.com
Many brain areas modulate their activity during vibrotactile tasks. The activity from these
areas may code the stimulus parameters, stimulus perception, or perceptual reports. Here …

Multi-timescale neural dynamics for multisensory integration

D Senkowski, AK Engel - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2024 - nature.com
Carrying out any everyday task, be it driving in traffic, conversing with friends or playing
basketball, requires rapid selection, integration and segregation of stimuli from different …

Mnemonic and attentional roles for states of attenuated alpha oscillations in perceptual working memory: a review

F van Ede - European Journal of Neuroscience, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Alpha oscillations are often reported to be amplified during working memory (WM) retention,
serving to disengage sensory areas to protect internal representations from external …

Parietal and early visual cortices encode working memory content across mental transformations

TB Christophel, RM Cichy, MN Hebart, JD Haynes - Neuroimage, 2015 - Elsevier
Active and flexible manipulations of memory contents “in the mind's eye” are believed to
occur in a dedicated neural workspace, frequently referred to as visual working memory …