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ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2020

Unimodal and Bimodal Access to Sensory Working Memories by Auditory and Visual Impulses.

Michael J Wolff, Güven Kandemir, Mark G Stokes, Elkan G Akyürek

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Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.

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32citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

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32 citing papers in PubMed, 79 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Michael J WolffDepartment of Experimental Psychology, University of Groningen, Groningen, 9712 TS, The Netherlands, and michael.wolff@psy.ox.ac.uk.
Güven KandemirDepartment of Experimental Psychology, University of Groningen, Groningen, 9712 TS, The Netherlands, and.
Mark G StokesDepartment of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6GG, United Kingdom.
Elkan G AkyürekDepartment of Experimental Psychology, University of Groningen, Groningen, 9712 TS, The Netherlands, and.
University of Groningen · NLUniversity of Oxford · GB

Funding

Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 203139/Z/16/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

It is unclear to what extent sensory processing areas are involved in the maintenance of sensory information in working memory (WM). Previous studies have thus far relied on finding neural activity in the corresponding sensory cortices, neglecting potential activity-silent mechanisms, such as connectivity-dependent encoding. It has recently been found that visual stimulation during visual WM maintenance reveals WM-dependent changes through a bottom-up neural response. Here, we test whether this impulse response is uniquely visual and sensory-specific. Human participants (both sexes) completed visual and auditory WM tasks while electroencephalography was recorded. During the maintenance period, the WM network was perturbed serially with fixed and task-neutral auditory and visual stimuli. We show that a neutral auditory impulse-stimulus presented during the maintenance of a pure tone resulted in a WM-dependent neural response, providing evidence for the auditory counterpart to the visual WM findings reported previously. Interestingly, visual stimulation also resulted in an auditory WM-dependent impulse response, implicating the visual cortex in the maintenance of auditory information, either directly or indirectly, as a pathway to the neural auditory WM representations elsewhere. In contrast, during visual WM maintenance, only the impulse response to visual stimulation was content-specific, suggesting that visual information is maintained in a sensory-specific neural network, separated from auditory processing areas.

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Acoustic StimulationAdolescentAdultAuditory PerceptionCuesElectroencephalographyEvoked PotentialsFemaleGeneralization, PsychologicalHumansMaleMemory, Short-TermNerve NetOrientationPhotic StimulationPitch PerceptionEEGmultivariate pattern analysissensory working memory

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PMID31754009
PMCPMC6961985
OpenAlexW2991210969

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