Flexible behavior requires guidance not only by sensations that are available immediately
but also by relevant mental contents carried forward through working memory. Therefore …

Working memory (WM) has limited capacity. This leaves attention with the important role of
allowing into storage only the most relevant information. It is increasingly evident that …

The article introduces an interference model of working memory for information in a
continuous similarity space, such as the features of visual objects. The model incorporates …

The concept of attention has a prominent place in cognitive psychology. Attention can be
directed not only to perceptual information, but also to information in working memory (WM) …

Selective attention, the ability to focus our cognitive resources on information relevant to our
goals, influences working memory (WM) performance. Indeed, attention and working …

The brain has a limited capacity and therefore needs mechanisms to selectively enhance
the information most relevant to one's current behavior. We refer to these mechanisms as" …

The contralateral delay activity (CDA) is a negative slow wave sensitive to the number of
objects maintained in visual working memory (VWM). In recent years, a growing number of …

Executive functions (EFs) make possible mentally playing with ideas; taking the time to think
before acting; meeting novel, unanticipated challenges; resisting temptations; and staying …

Memories are about the past, but they serve the future. Memory research often emphasizes
the former aspect: focusing on the functions that re-constitute (re-member) experience and …

What happens to goal‐relevant information in working memory after it is no longer needed?
Here, we review evidence for a selective removal process that operates on outdated …