ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2024
A Neural Decision Signal during Internal Sampling from Working Memory in Humans.
Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Flexibility of internal attention: divergent spatiotemporal profiles for feature and object cueing.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2026Article
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- Sequential sampling from memory underlies perceptual decisions unyoked from actions.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Rhythmic sampling and competition of target and distractor representations in visual sensory memory.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2026Article
- Perceptual Decision Advantages in Open-Skill Athletes Emerge near the Threshold of Awareness: Behavioral, Computational, and Electrophysiological Evidence.Brain sciences · 2026Article
- Motor Preparation Tracks Decision Boundary Crossing Rather Than Accumulated Evidence in Temporal Decision-Making.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Sampling from Internal and External Sensations Guides Decision-Making.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- Tracing the neural trajectories of evidence accumulation and motor preparation processes during voluntary decisions.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.)Article
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Abstract
How humans transform sensory information into decisions that steer purposeful behavior is a central question in psychology and neuroscience that is traditionally investigated during the sampling of external environmental signals. The decision-making framework of gradual information sampling toward a decision has also been proposed to apply when sampling internal sensory evidence from working memory. However, neural evidence for this proposal remains scarce. Here we show (using scalp EEG in male and female human volunteers) that sampling internal visual representations from working memory elicits a scalp EEG potential associated with gradual evidence accumulation-the central parietal positivity. Consistent with an evolving decision process, we show how this signal (1) scales with the time participants require to reach a decision about the cued memory content and (2) is amplified when having to decide among multiple contents in working memory. These results bring the electrophysiology of decision-making into the domain of working memory and suggest that variability in memory-guided behavior may be driven (at least in part) by variations in the sampling of our inner mental contents.
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