SynthesisNeuroscience and biobehavioral reviews2016
The contralateral delay activity as a neural measure of visual working memory.
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126 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 364 citations in OpenAlex.
- A cognitive nose? Evaluating working memory benchmarks in the olfactory domain.Chemical senses · 2025Pooled it
- Evidence for the beneficial effect of perceptual grouping on visual working memory: an empirical study on illusory contour and a meta-analytic study.Scientific reports · 2018Pooled it
- Behavioral and neurocognitive effects of judo training on working memory capacity in children with ADHD: A randomized controlled trial.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2022Trial
- EEG dynamics reveal a dissociation between storage and selective attention within working memory.Scientific reports · 2019Trial
- Social exclusion weakens storage capacity and attentional filtering ability in visual working memory.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2018Trial
- Exploring Neural Mechanisms Underlying Error-related Impairments in Active Working Memory Suggests an Adaptive Shielding of Contents during Cognitive Control.Journal of cognitive neuroscience · 2026Article
- Content-Independent Pointers Mediate Working Memory Storage for Both Visual and Verbal Stimuli.Journal of cognitive neuroscience · 2026Article
- Inter-Hemispheric Coordination and Ageing in Visual Working Memory: A Distributed Framework.Brain sciences · 2026Review
- Motor skills and working memory capacity in preadolescents born very preterm.Developmental medicine and child neurology · 2026Article
- Mental cost of simple(st) physical exertion.Cognition · 2026Article
- Alpha phase coding supports feature binding during working memory maintenance.Communications biology · 2026Article
- Colors, characters, locations, and shapes: The capacity of working memory for multiple, dissimilar sets of items.Memory & cognition · 2026Article
- Working memory's pointer system is governed by physical objecthood, not spatiotemporal information.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Article
- Capacity not required: A long-term memory model that exhibits key signatures of working memory.Psychological review · 2026Article
- Color first, space next, orientation last: A temporal comparison of retro-cue effects in visual working memory.Memory & cognition · 2026Article
- Stage-Specific Processing in Numerosity Working Memory: ERP Evidence for Load and Mismatch Effects in a Delayed Match-to-Sample Task.NeuroSci · 2026Article
- Contributions from Long-Term Memory Explain Superior Visual Working Memory Performance with Meaningful Objects.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026Article
- Item-based Parsing of Dynamic Scenes in a Combined Attentional Tracking and Working Memory Task.Journal of cognitive neuroscience · 2026Article
- ERP Decoding Analysis of Visual Working Memory Processes in Schizophrenia.Alpha psychiatry · 2026Article
- Tuning out emotional distractors by tuning in theta rhythm: improving visual working memory using transcranial magnetic stimulation.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2026Article
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Abstract
The contralateral delay activity (CDA) is a negative slow wave sensitive to the number of objects maintained in visual working memory (VWM). In recent years, a growing number of labs started to use the CDA in order to investigate VWM, leading to many fascinating discoveries. Here, we discuss the recent developments and contribution of the CDA in various research fields. Importantly, we report two meta-analyses that unequivocally validate the relationship between the set-size increase in the CDA amplitude and the individual VWM capacity, and between the CDA and filtering efficiency. We further discuss how the CDA was used to study the role of VWM in visual search, multiple object tracking, grouping, binding, and whether VWM capacity allocation is determined by the items' resolution or instead by the number of objects regardless of their complexity. In addition, we report how the CDA has been used to characterize specific VWM deficits in special populations.
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