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ReviewNeuron2019

Premembering Experience: A Hierarchy of Time-Scales for Proactive Attention.

Anna C Nobre, Mark G Stokes

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Review in Neuron, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 67 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
67citing papers in PubMed
8.3field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

67 citing papers in PubMed, 164 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Evidence for Abstract Codes in Parietal Cortex Guiding Prospective Working Memory.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026
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  5. Sensory reformatting for a working visual memory.Trends in cognitive sciences · 2025
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  10. Attending to Remember: Recent Advances in Methods and Theory.Current directions in psychological science · 2025
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  14. Neural Dynamics of Reselecting Visual and Motor Contents in Working Memory after External Interference.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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  20. Neural dynamics of shifting attention between perception and working-memory contents.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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7 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Anna C NobreDepartment of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. Electronic address: kia.nobre@psy.ox.ac.uk.
Mark G StokesDepartment of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
University of Oxford · GBWellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging · GB

Funding

Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Memories are about the past, but they serve the future. Memory research often emphasizes the former aspect: focusing on the functions that re-constitute (re-member) experience and elucidating the various types of memories and their interrelations, timescales, and neural bases. Here we highlight the prospective nature of memory in guiding selective attention, focusing on functions that use previous experience to anticipate the relevant events about to unfold-to "premember" experience. Memories of various types and timescales play a fundamental role in guiding perception and performance adaptively, proactively, and dynamically. Consonant with this perspective, memories are often recorded according to expected future demands. Using working memory as an example, we consider how mnemonic content is selected and represented for future use. This perspective moves away from the traditional representational account of memory toward a functional account in which forward-looking memory traces are informationally and computationally tuned for interacting with incoming sensory signals to guide adaptive behavior.

Indexed as

Memory, EpisodicAnimalsAttentionDecision MakingHumansMemoryMemory, Short-Termattentiondecision-makingepisodic memoryhippocampusimplicit memorymemoryprefrontal cortexprimingworking memory

Identifiers

PMID31600510
PMCPMC6873797
OpenAlexW2979582268

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