Flexible behavior requires guidance not only by sensations that are available immediately
but also by relevant mental contents carried forward through working memory. Therefore …

Highlights•The attentional template encodes information about the target and is held in
working or long-term memory.•The attentional template does not contain a veridical copy of …

Perception is shaped by actions, which determine the allocation of selective attention across
the visual field. Here, we review evidence that maintenance in visual working memory is …

Working memory bridges perception to action over extended delays, enabling flexible goal-
directed behaviour. To date, studies of visual working memory–concerned with detailed …

Alpha oscillations are often reported to be amplified during working memory (WM) retention,
serving to disengage sensory areas to protect internal representations from external …

Visual attention is often characterized as being guided by precise memories for target
objects. However, real-world search targets have dynamic features that vary over time …

Studies of selective attention during perception have revealed modulation of the pupillary
response according to the brightness of task-relevant (attended) vs.-irrelevant (unattended) …

Selective attention can be directed not only to external sensory inputs, but also to internal
sensory representations held within visual working memory (VWM). To date, this …

Although a considerable literature has grown up around the interactions between emotional
state and visual working memory (VWM) performance, the mechanism underlying the impact …

Working Memory (WM) maintains flexible representations. Retrospective cueing studies
indicate that selective attention can be directed to memory representations in WM improving …