Good-enough attentional guidance

X Yu, Z Zhou, SI Becker, SEP Boettcher… - Trends in Cognitive …, 2023 - cell.com
Theories of attention posit that attentional guidance operates on information held in a target
template within memory. The template is often thought to contain veridical target features …

Representation and computation in visual working memory

PM Bays, S Schneegans, WJ Ma, TF Brady - Nature Human Behaviour, 2024 - nature.com
The ability to sustain internal representations of the sensory environment beyond immediate
perception is a fundamental requirement of cognitive processing. In recent years, debates …

[HTML][HTML] Attention for action in visual working memory

CNL Olivers, PR Roelfsema - Cortex, 2020 - Elsevier
From the conception of Baddeley's visuospatial sketchpad, visual working memory and
visual attention have been closely linked concepts. An attractive model has advocated unity …

**ing the brain with visual impulses reveals electrically active, not activity-silent, working memories

J Barbosa, D Lozano-Soldevilla, A Compte - PLoS biology, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Persistently active neurons during mnemonic periods have been regarded as the
mechanism underlying working memory maintenance. Alternatively, neuronal networks …

Revealing visual working memory operations with pupillometry: Encoding, maintenance, and prioritization

D Koevoet, C Strauch… - Wiley …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Pupillary dynamics reflect effects of distinct and important operations of visual working
memory: encoding, maintenance, and prioritization. Here, we review how pupil size predicts …

Bend but don't break: Prioritization protects working memory from displacement but leaves it vulnerable to distortion from distraction

Z Zhang, JA Lewis-Peacock - Cognition, 2023 - Elsevier
Perceptual distraction distorts visual working memory representations. Previous research
has shown that memory responses are systematically biased towards passively viewed …

Prioritization sharpens working memories but does not protect them from distraction.

Z Zhang, JA Lewis-Peacock - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Perceptual distraction distorts visual working memory representations. Previous research
has shown that memory responses are systematically biased toward visual distractors that …

The passive state: A protective mechanism for information in working memory tasks.

J Zhang, C Ye, HJ Sun, J Zhou, T Liang… - Journal of …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Memory representations can be stored in a passive state in a visual working memory (VWM)
task. However, it remains unclear whether the representations stored in the passive state are …

[HTML][HTML] Working memory forgetting: Bridging gaps between human and animal studies

G Malleret, P Salin, S Mazza, G Plancher - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral …, 2024 - Elsevier
The causes of forgetting in working memory (WM) remain a source of debate in cognitive
psychology, partly because it has always been challenging to probe the complex neural …

To be or not to be relevant: Comparing short-and long-term consequences across working memory prioritization procedures

S Jeanneret, LM Bartsch, E Vergauwe - Attention, Perception, & …, 2023 - Springer
Priority-based allocation of attentional resources has shown robust effects in working
memory (WM) with both cue-based and reward-based prioritization. However, direct …