The removal of information from working memory

JA Lewis‐Peacock, Y Kessler… - Annals of the New York …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
What happens to goal‐relevant information in working memory after it is no longer needed?
Here, we review evidence for a selective removal process that operates on outdated …

What Does the n-Back Task Measure as We Get Older? Relations Between Working-Memory Measures and Other Cognitive Functions Across the Lifespan

PD Gajewski, E Hanisch, M Falkenstein… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Working memory (WM) declines with increasing age. The WM capacity is often measured by
means of the computerized version of the n-back task. Although the n-back task is widely …

Decomposing the n-back task: An individual differences study using the reference-back paradigm

R Rac-Lubashevsky, Y Kessler - Neuropsychologia, 2016 - Elsevier
Working memory (WM) has two major functions: Maintenance, which is the ability to shield
information from being overwritten by irrelevant information, and updating, the ability to …

Spatialization in working memory is related to literacy and reading direction: Culture “literarily” directs our thoughts

A Guida, AM Megreya, M Lavielle-Guida, Y Noël… - Cognition, 2018 - Elsevier
The ability to maintain arbitrary sequences of items in the mind contributes to major cognitive
faculties, such as language, reasoning, and episodic memory. Previous research suggests …

Revisiting the relationship between the P3b and working memory updating

R Rac-Lubashevsky, Y Kessler - Biological psychology, 2019 - Elsevier
The P3b is an extensively studied neurophysiological phenomenon that is predominantly
explained in the cognitive neuroscience literature as reflecting context updating, presumably …

Dissociating working memory updating and automatic updating: The reference-back paradigm.

R Rac-Lubashevsky, Y Kessler - Journal of Experimental …, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
Working memory (WM) updating is a controlled process through which relevant information
in the environment is selected to enter the gate to WM and substitute its contents. We …

Neural substrates of working memory updating

G Nir-Cohen, Y Kessler, T Egner - Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2020 - direct.mit.edu
Working memory (WM) needs to protect current content from interference and
simultaneously be amenable to rapid updating with newly relevant information. An influential …

Grounding verbal working memory: the case of serial order

EL Abrahamse, JP van Dijck… - Current Directions in …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
The maintenance of serial order in verbal working memory (WM) is a major unsolved puzzle
in cognitive science. Here we review a series of studies showing that serial order in verbal …

Tracking real-time changes in working memory updating and gating with the event-based eye-blink rate

R Rac-Lubashevsky, HA Slagter, Y Kessler - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Effective working memory (WM) functioning depends on the gating process that regulates
the balance between maintenance and updating of WM. The present study used the event …

Distinguishing multiple coding levels in theta band activity during working memory gating processes

S Rempel, L Colzato, W Zhang, N Wolff, M Mückschel… - Neuroscience, 2021 - Elsevier
Cognitive control and working memory (WM) processes are essential for goal-directed
behaviour. Cognitive control and WM are probably based on overlap** …