Theories of attention posit that attentional guidance operates on information held in a target
template within memory. The template is often thought to contain veridical target features …

Recent human fMRI pattern-decoding studies have highlighted the involvement of sensory
areas in visual working memory (VWM) tasks and argue for a sensory account of VWM …

Pattern separation, or the process by which highly similar stimuli or experiences in memory
are represented by non-overlapping neural ensembles, has typically been ascribed to …

Endogenous attention is the cognitive function that selects the relevant pieces of sensory
information to achieve goals and it is known to be controlled by dorsal fronto-parietal brain …

The sensory recruitment theory of working memory (WM) proposes that the same cortical
regions that contribute to online perceptual processing of a stimulus are recruited to …

The encoding of sensory information in the human brain is thought to be optimised by two
principal processes:'prediction'uses stored information to guide the interpretation of …

Visual working memory refers to the temporary maintenance and manipulation of task-
related visual information. Recent debate on the underlying neural substrates of visual …

The ability to represent and select information in working memory provides the
neurobiological infrastructure for human cognition. For 80 years, dominant views of working …

Two factors play important roles in shaping perception: the allocation of selective attention to
behaviorally relevant sensory features, and prior expectations about regularities in the …

Highlights•The attentional template encodes information about the target and is held in
working or long-term memory.•The attentional template does not contain a veridical copy of …