Recent human fMRI pattern-decoding studies have highlighted the involvement of sensory
areas in visual working memory (VWM) tasks and argue for a sensory account of VWM …

Distractor suppression, or the ability to disregard salient distractors while dealing with task-
relevant information, is a key component of selective attention. Recent research has shown …

When combining information across different senses, humans need to flexibly select cues of
a common origin while avoiding distraction from irrelevant inputs. The brain could solve this …

Remembering a past experience can, surprisingly, cause forgetting. Forgetting arises when
other competing traces interfere with retrieval and inhibitory control mechanisms are …

The prefrontal cortex maintains working memory information in the presence of distracting
stimuli. It has long been thought that sustained activity in individual neurons or groups of …

The ability to select information that is relevant to current behavioral goals is the hallmark of
voluntary attention and an essential part of our cognition. Attention tasks are a prime …

Spatial attention is comprised of neural mechanisms that boost sensory processing at a
behaviorally relevant location while filtering out competing information. The present review …

The prefrontal cortex is activated during working memory, as evidenced by fMRI results in
human studies and neurophysiological recordings in animal models. Persistent activity …

Although the contents of working memory can be decoded from visual cortex activity, these
representations may play a limited role if they are not robust to distraction. We used model …

The ability to suppress distractors is critical for the successful completion of goal-oriented
behaviors. This is particularly true for everyday behaviors that take time to accomplish and …