Frontoparietal and Cingulo-opercular Networks Play Dissociable Roles in Control of Working Memory

By George Wallis, Mark G. Stokes, Helena Cousijn, Mark William Woolrich, Anna Christina Nobre. 2015

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Causal Evidence for a Role of Theta and Alpha Oscillations in the Control of Working Memory (2020, methodology): “Prioritizing relevant information has been linked to theta frequency neural oscillations in lateral prefrontal cortex and suppressing irrelevant information has been linked to alpha oscillations in occipito-parietal cortex [3,11].”
Hierarchical consciousness: the Nested Observer Windows model (2024, background): “For example, theta oscilaltions in lateral prefrontal cortex and alpha oscillations in posterior parietal cortex were associated with the prioritization and suppression of working memory representations, respectively (Wallis et al. 2015).”
Alpha phase coding supports feature binding during working memory maintenance (2026, unknown): “Their coordinated dynamics re ﬂ ect a broader network-level organization crucial for supporting WM processes 57,58 .”
Human Beta Oscillations Reflect Magnitude and Fidelity of Priority Shifts in Working Memory (2026, unknown): “We focused on oscillations because previous work has implicated frontal slow oscillations in the delta/theta-band and posterior alpha-band power reductions (Poch et al., 2014; Wallis et al., 2015; de Vries et al., 2018; Riddle et al., 2020) in switching attention between items held in WM.”
Temporal expectation based on the duration variability modulates alpha oscillations during working memory retention (2022, unknown): “, the prefrontal and parietal cortices (Kuo et al., 2018; Kuo et al., 2014; Kuo et al., 2011b; Riddle et al., 2020; Wallis et al., 2015).”
How to refocus attention on working memory representations following interruptions—Evidence from frontal theta and posterior alpha oscillations (2021, background): “…of the retrospectively cued bar might again elicit a contralateral suppression of alpha power, because this effect is associated with the selective access to the stored working memory representations (e.g., Myers et al., 2015; Poch et al., 2014; Schneider et al., 2016; Wallis et al., 2015).”
Neural oscillations track the maintenance and proceduralization of novel instructions (2021, result): “This dynamic is consistent with previous ﬁndings on lateralized retrospective orienting of internal attention, showing modulations within 500 and 1000 ms ( Mok et al., 2016 ; Poch et al., 2017 , 2018 ; Wallis et al., 2015 ; Wolﬀ, Ding, Myers, & Stokes, 2015 ; Wolﬀ, Jochim, Akyürek, & Stokes, 2017 ).”
Neural oscillations track the maintenance and proceduralization of novel instructions (2020, result): “Consistent findings reported alpha desynchronization over posterior regions contralateral to the attended spatial location, indicating top-down anticipatory mechanisms of orienting attention in the perceptual or internal space (Sauseng et al., 2005; Thut et al., 2006; Rihs et al., 2007; van Dijk et ”