Recent studies have shown that selective attention is of considerable importance for
encoding task-relevant items into visual short-term memory (VSTM) according to our …

Whereas top-down attentional control is known to bias perceptual functions at many levels of
stimulus analysis, its possible influence over memory-related functions remains uncharted …

Visual short-term memory (VSTM) is limited in capacity. Therefore, it is important to encode
only visual information that is most likely to be relevant to behaviour. Here we asked which …

Recent evidence has revealed that short-lived internal representations held in visual short-
term memory (VSTM) can be modulated by top-down control via retrospective attention …

Visual short-term memory (VSTM) is traditionally considered a robust form of visual memory
resistant to interference from subsequent visual input. This study shows that the robustness …

Humans have the ability to attentionally select the most relevant visual information from their
extrapersonal world and to retain it in a temporary buffer, known as visual short-term …

When a memory is forgotten, is it lost forever? Our study shows that selective attention can
restore forgotten items to visual short-term memory (VSTM). In our two experiments, all …

Many cognitive processes depend on our ability to hold information in mind, often well
beyond the offset of the original sensory input. The capacity of this visual short-term memory …

Recent studies have provided conflicting accounts regarding where in the human brain
visual short-term memory (VSTM) content is stored, with strong univariate fMRI responses …

Interactions between visual attention and visual short-term memory (VSTM) play a central
role in cognitive processing. For example, attention can assist in selectively encoding items …