Neural activity predicts individual differences in visual working memory capacity

By Edward K. Vogel, Maro G. Machizawa. Nature, 2004

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Evidence of Online Performance Deterioration in User Sessions on Reddit (2016, background): “Neuroscience studies found individual diﬀerences in working memory and other cognitive activities in the human brain [26].”
Discrete Capacity Limits in Visual Working Memory (2010, methodology): “For example, Vogel and Machizawa [19] recorded EEG from subjects as they performed a lateralized WM change detection task in which they must remember arrays of simple objects presented in a cued hemifield.”
On the capacity of attention: its estimation and its role in working memory and cognitive aptitudes. (2005, background): “Vogel and Machizawa (2004) provided a cue to attend to colored squares on one side of the screen while ignoring those on the other side and used the extra event-related electrical activity on the side of the scalp contralateral to the attended field as an index of WM maintenance.”
Neural substrates of cognitive capacity limitations (2011, result): “This result is supported by previous work showing that a subject’s ability to attentively filter information is a major factor in their effective capacity size (15, 23).”
Brain oscillatory substrates of visual short-term memory capacity. (2009, background): “Conclusions Vogel and coworkers [2, 3] elegantly demonstrated that lateralized slow cortical negativity at posterior brain regions predicts memory capacity.”
A PIN-entry method resilient against shoulder surfing (2004, background): “Recently, Vogel and Machizawa [ 32 ] discovered a relationship between neural activity and memory capacity and found neurophysiological evidence that the human visual short term memory (STM) is limited to three to four symbols.”
Attentional control and capture in the attentional blink paradigm: Evidence from human electrophysiology (2006, background): “Vogel and Machizawa ( 2004 ) extended this work by showing that the amplitude of the SPCN increases as the number of objects in VSTM is increased, but only up to an individual observer's VSTM storage capacity.”
An assessment of fixed-capacity models of visual working memory (2008, background): “Cowan’s formula has been applied in a growing number of studies (9, 18, 19), often in combination with electrophysiological measures (20, 21) or functional neuroimaging (12–14).”