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EEG dynamics reveal a dissociation between storage and selective attention within working memory.
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24 citing papers in PubMed.
- Exogenously Driven Neural Reactivation of Spatially Matching Visual Working-Memory Contents.eNeuro · 2026Article
- Neural evidence for modality-independent storage in working memory.Current biology : CB · 2025Article
- The impact of category-based retro-cues on representational prioritization in visual working memory: behavioral and EEG evidence.Psychological research · 2025Article
- Non-Target Suppression Supports the Formation of Representational Prioritization Under High Working Memory Load.Brain sciences · 2025Article
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- Tensor-powered insights into neural dynamics.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Comparing retro-cue benefit mechanisms in visual working memory: completely valid vs. highly valid retro-cues.BMC psychology · 2024Article
- Electroencephalogram Decoding Reveals Distinct Processes for Directing Spatial Attention and Encoding Into Working Memory.Psychological science · 2024Article
- Effects of Context Changes on Memory Reactivation.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- Comparing Neural Correlates of Memory Encoding and Maintenance for Foveal and Peripheral Stimuli.Journal of cognitive neuroscience · 2024Article
- The Role of Momentary Dissociation in the Sensory Cortex: A Neurophysiological Review and its Implications for Maladaptive Daydreaming.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2024Review
- The role of recollection and familiarity in visual working memory: A mixture of threshold and signal detection processes.Psychological review · 2024Review
- Encoded and updated spatial working memories share a common representational format in alpha activity.iScience · 2024Article
- Internal attention is the only retroactive mechanism for controlling precision in working memory.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2023Article
- Is the Contralateral Delay Activity (CDA) a robust neural correlate for Visual Working Memory (VWM) tasks? A reproducibility study.Psychophysiology · 2023Review
- Functional connectivity drives stroke recovery: shifting the paradigm from correlation to causation.Brain : a journal of neurology · 2022Review
- Using a Novel Functional Brain Network Approach to Locate Important Nodes for Working Memory Tasks.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Coherent neural oscillations inform early stroke motor recovery.Human brain mapping · 2021Article
- Multi-scale neural decoding and analysis.Journal of neural engineering · 2021Review
- Controlling the Flow of Distracting Information in Working Memory.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2021Article
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Abstract
Selective attention plays a prominent role in prioritizing information in working memory (WM), improving performance for attended representations. However, it remains unclear whether unattended WM representations suffer from information loss. Here we tested the hypothesis that within WM, selectively attending to an item and stopping storing other items are independent mechanisms. We recorded EEG while participants performed a WM recall task in which the item most likely to be tested was cued retrospectively during retention. By manipulating retro-cue reliability (i.e., the ratio of valid to invalid cue trials), we varied the incentive to retain non-cued items. Storage and selective attention in WM were measured during the retention interval by contralateral delay activity (CDA) and contralateral alpha power suppression, respectively. Soon after highly reliable cues, the cued item was attended, and non-cued items suffered information loss. However, for less reliable cues, initially the cued item was attended, but unattended items were kept in WM. Later during the delay, previously unattended items suffered information loss despite now attention being reallocated to their locations, presumably to strengthen their weakening traces. These results show that storage and attention in WM are distinct processes that can behave differently depending on the relative importance of representations.
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