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The Role of Location-Context Binding in Nonspatial Visual Working Memory.

Ying Cai, Jacqueline M Fulvio, Qing Yu, Andrew D Sheldon, Bradley R Postle

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Article in eNeuro. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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18citing papers in PubMed
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 18% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Ying CaiDepartment of Psychology and Behavioral Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310007, China.
Jacqueline M FulvioDepartment of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706.ORCID 0000-0002-0055-4308
Qing YuDepartment of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706.ORCID 0000-0001-8480-7634
Andrew D SheldonMedical Scientist Training Program and Neuroscience Training Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison WI 53706.
Bradley R PostleDepartment of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706 postle@wisc.edu.
University of Wisconsin–Madison · USUniversity of Wisconsin System · US

Funding

INTEGRATED TRAINING FOR PHYSICIAN-SCIENTISTST32GM008692 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI BURKARD, MARK E · 1998 to 2020
$10.3M
Investigating Cognitive &Neural Bases of Working MemoryR01MH064498 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI POSTLE, BRADLEY R · 2003 to 2020
$6.7M
NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008692NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH064498
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Successful retrieval of an item from visual working memory (VWM) often requires an associated representation of the trial-unique context in which that item was presented. In experiment 1, fMRI of 16 male and female humans replicated a previous dissociation of the effects of manipulating memory load in comparison to the effects of manipulating context binding, by comparing VWM for one oriented line versus for three lines individuated by their location versus for three "heterogeneous" items drawn from different categories (orientation, color, and luminance): delay-period fMRI signal in frontal cortex and intraparietal sulcus (IPS) was sensitive to stimulus homogeneity rather than to memory load per se. Additionally, inspection of behavioral performance revealed a broad range of individual differences in the probability of responses to nontargets (also known as "swap errors"), and a

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Memory, Short-TermVisual PerceptionFemaleHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleMental RecallParietal LobefMRI

Identifiers

PMID33257529
PMCPMC7773890
OpenAlexW3106769909

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