Prioritizing Information during Working Memory: Beyond Sustained Internal Attention

By Nicholas E. Myers, Mark G. Stokes, Anna Christina Nobre. 2017

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Theta-Phase Connectivity between Medial Prefrontal and Posterior Areas Underlies Novel Instructions Implementation (2022, background): “Such reformatting of prioritized items into a behavior-optimized format has been recently proposed as core mechanism to efficiently deal with multiple memoranda and circumvent capacity limitations(Myers et al., 2017.”
Changes in behavioral priority influence the accessibility but not the quality of working memory content (2022, background): “The typical finding is that an informative retrocue improves memory performance relative to an uninformative cue or no-cue condition (see Souza & Oberauer, 2016, and Myers et al., 2017, for recent comprehensive reviews).”
Temporal expectation based on the duration variability modulates alpha oscillations during working memory retention (2022, background): “, 2012), updates the prioritised status of maintained information (Myers et al., 2017; van Loon et al., 2018), and reconfigures the functional states of internal representations (Wolff et al.”
The association between working memory precision and the nonlinear dynamics of frontal and parieto-occipital EEG activity (2022, background): “Therefore, the inter-regional PAC observed can be associated with the selection of visual information in WM 82 .”
How to refocus attention on working memory representations following interruptions—Evidence from frontal theta and posterior alpha oscillations (2021, unknown): “…shown that whenever spatial features of laterally presented information stored in working memory can be applied for guiding the focus of attention, lateralization in alpha power can be used to map this process (e.g., Myers et al., 2017; Poch et al., 2014; Schneider F I GURE 7 Frontal theta power.”
Neural oscillations track the maintenance and proceduralization of novel instructions (2021, methodology): “Although strong conclusions cannot be drawn, based on this rough interpretation of our permutation results and theoretical models such as Myers’ ( 2017 ), we are inclined to speculate that motor preparation is initiated following attentional selection of the relevant mappings.”