SynthesisPsychonomic bulletin & review2022
Sensory recruitment in visual short-term memory: A systematic review and meta-analysis of sensory visual cortex interference using transcranial magnetic stimulation.
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- The oblique effect in visual working memory is enhanced by distraction, regardless of tDCS manipulations.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2026Article
- Spatial reorganization of object representations in high-level visual cortex distinguishes working memory from perception.Science advances · 2026Article
- Brain Functional Connectivity During First- and Third-Person Visual Imagery.Vision (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Short-term memory retrieval enhances brain functional connectivity.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2025Article
- The causal involvement of the visual cortex in visual working memory remains uncertain.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- Sensory modality and information domain contribute jointly to dual-task interference between working memory and perceptual processing.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024Article
- Advancing working memory research through cortico-cortical transcranial magnetic stimulation.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2024Article
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- Causal evidence for the role of the sensory visual cortex in visual short-term memory maintenance.Royal Society open science · 2023Article
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Abstract
Sensory visual areas are involved in encoding information in visual short-term memory (VSTM). Yet it remains unclear whether sensory visual cortex is a necessary component of the brain network for maintenance of information in VSTM. Here, we aimed to systematically review studies that have investigated the role of the sensory visual cortex in VSTM using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and to quantitatively explore these effects using meta-analyses. Fourteen studies were identified and reviewed. Eight studies provided sufficient data for meta-analysis. Two meta-analyses, one regarding the VSTM encoding phase (17 effect sizes) and one regarding the VSTM maintenance phase (15 effect sizes), two meta-regressions (32 effect sizes in each), and one exploratory meta-analysis were conducted. Our results indicate that the sensory visual cortex is similarly involved in both the encoding and maintenance VSTM phase. We suggest that some cases where evidence did not show significant TMS effects was due to low memory or perceptual task demands. Overall, these findings support the idea that sensory visual areas are part of the brain network responsible for successfully maintaining information in VSTM.
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