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ArticlePsychological science2024

Task Termination Triggers Spontaneous Removal of Information From Visual Working Memory.

Hiroyuki Tsubomi, Keisuke Fukuda, Atsushi Kikumoto, Ulrich Mayr, Edward K Vogel

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Article in Psychological science, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Differential representations of spatial location by aperiodic and alpha oscillatory activity in working memory.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  2. EEG Correlates of Active Removal from Working Memory.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Hiroyuki TsubomiSchool of Humanities, University of Toyama.ORCID 0009-0004-9796-9201
Keisuke FukudaDepartment of Psychology, University of Toronto Mississauga.
Atsushi KikumotoDepartment of Cognitive, Linguistic & Psychological Sciences, Brown University.
Ulrich MayrDepartment of Psychology, University of Oregon.ORCID 0000-0002-7512-4556
Edward K VogelDepartment of Psychology, University of Chicago.

Funding

The Distinction Between Number and Resolution in Visual Working MemoryR01MH087214 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF OREGON · PI AWH, EDWARD, VOGEL, EDWARD K · 2009 to 2023
$11.0M
NIH HHS R01 MH087214NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH087214Non-US Government Research Support typeOffice of Naval Research N000142212123
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Working memory (WM) is a goal-directed memory system that actively maintains a limited amount of task-relevant information to serve the current goal. By this definition, WM maintenance should be terminated after the goal is accomplished, spontaneously removing no-longer-relevant information from WM. Past studies have failed to provide direct evidence of spontaneous removal of WM content by allowing participants to engage in a strategic reallocation of WM resources to competing information within WM. By contrast, we provide direct neural and behavioral evidence that visual WM content can be largely removed less than 1 s after it becomes obsolete, in the absence of a strategic allocation of resources (total

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Memory, Short-TermVisual PerceptionAdultFemaleHumansMaleYoung Adultcapacity limitdelay activityforgettingopen dataopen materialsworking memory

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PMID38913829
PMCPMC13614489

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