ArticleeNeuro2024
Microsaccades Track Location-Based Object Rehearsal in Visual Working Memory.
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- Exogenously Driven Neural Reactivation of Spatially Matching Visual Working-Memory Contents.eNeuro · 2026Article
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- Stimulus representations in visual cortex shaped by spatial attention and microsaccades.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Dissociating external and internal attentional selection.iScience · 2025Article
- Eye movements follow the dynamic shifts of attention through serial order in verbal working memory.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Attentional shifts bias microsaccade direction but do not cause new microsaccades.Communications psychology · 2024Article
- Ocular working memory signals are flexible to behavioral priority and subjective imagery strength.Journal of neurophysiology · 2024Article
- Linking Cognitive Integrity to Working Memory Dynamics in the Aging Human Brain.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
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- The Intensity of Internal and External Attention Assessed with Pupillometry.Journal of cognition · 2024Article
- Microsaccades reflect attention shifts: a mini review of 20 years of microsaccade research.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Review
- Capacity and selection in immersive visual working memory following naturalistic object disappearance.Journal of vision · 2023Article
- No obligatory trade-off between the use of space and time for working memory.Communications psychology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Besides controlling eye movements, the brain's oculomotor system has been implicated in the control of covert spatial attention and the rehearsal of spatial information in working memory. We investigated whether the oculomotor system also contributes to rehearsing visual objects in working memory when object location is never asked about. To address this, we tracked the incidental use of locations for mnemonic rehearsal via directional biases in microsaccades while participants maintained two visual objects (colored oriented gratings) in working memory. By varying the stimulus configuration (horizontal, diagonal, and vertical) at encoding, we could quantify whether microsaccades were more aligned with the configurational axis of the memory contents, as opposed to the orthogonal axis. Experiment 1 revealed that microsaccades continued to be biased along the axis of the memory content several seconds into the working memory delay. In Experiment 2, we confirmed that this directional microsaccade bias was specific to memory demands, ruling out lingering effects from passive and attentive encoding of the same visual objects in the same configurations. Thus, by studying microsaccade directions, we uncover oculomotor-driven rehearsal of visual objects in working memory through their associated locations.
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