ReviewFrontiers in human neuroscience2018
Working Memory and Consciousness: The Current State of Play.
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- Divergent thinking and the core executive functions: a state-of-the-art review.Cognitive processing · 2022Review
- What triggers explicit awareness in implicit sequence learning? Implications from theories of consciousness.Psychological research · 2022Review
- The Functional Interactions between Cortical Regions through Theta-Gamma Coupling during Resting-State and a Visual Working Memory Task.Brain sciences · 2022Article
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- The Essential Role of Executive Attention in Unconscious Visuomotor Priming.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Strongly masked content retained in memory made accessible through repetition.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Drug addiction - How it hijacks our cognition & consciousness.The Indian journal of medical research · 2021Article
- Working Memory and Cross-Frequency Coupling of Neuronal Oscillations.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Review
- The Neural Correlates of Access Consciousness and Phenomenal Consciousness Seem to Coincide and Would Correspond to a Memory Center, an Activation Center and Eight Parallel Convergence Centers.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Towards a comparative science of emotion: Affect and consciousness in humans and animals.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2020Review
- The science of consciousness does not need another theory, it needs a minimal unifying model.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2020Article
- The Common Basis of Memory and Consciousness: Understanding the Brain as a Write-Read Head Interacting With an Omnipresent Background Field.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
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Abstract
Working memory (WM), an important posit in cognitive science, allows one to temporarily store and manipulate information in the service of ongoing tasks. WM has been traditionally classified as an explicit memory system-that is, as operating on and maintaining only consciously perceived information. Recently, however, several studies have questioned this assumption, purporting to provide evidence for unconscious WM. In this article, we focus on visual working memory (VWM) and critically examine these studies as well as studies of unconscious perception that seem to provide indirect evidence for unconscious WM. Our analysis indicates that current evidence does not support an unconscious WM store, though we offer independent reasons to think that WM may operate on unconsciously perceived information.
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