Common neural mechanisms control attention and working memory

Y Zhou, CE Curtis, KK Sreenivasan… - Journal of …, 2022 - Soc Neuroscience
Although previous studies point to qualitative similarities between working memory (WM)
and attention, the degree to which these two constructs rely on shared neural mechanisms …

Common capacity‐limited neural mechanisms of selective attention and spatial working memory encoding

F Fusser, DEJ Linden, B Rahm… - European Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
One characteristic feature of visual working memory (WM) is its limited capacity, and
selective attention has been implicated as limiting factor. A possible reason why attention …

Neural representation of working memory content is modulated by visual attentional demand

A Kiyonaga, EW Dowd, T Egner - Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 2017 - direct.mit.edu
Recent theories assert that visual working memory (WM) relies on the same attentional
resources and sensory substrates as visual attention to external stimuli. Behavioral studies …

Parietal structure and function explain human variation in working memory biases of visual attention

D Soto, P Rotshtein, R Kanai - Neuroimage, 2014 - Elsevier
Recent research indicates that human attention appears inadvertently biased by items that
match the contents of working memory (WM). WM-biases can lead to attentional costs when …

Neural reinstatement tracks spread of attention between object features in working memory

FAB Printzlau, NE Myers, SG Manohar… - Journal of cognitive …, 2022 - direct.mit.edu
Attention can be allocated in working memory (WM) to select and privilege relevant content.
It is unclear whether attention selects individual features or whole objects in WM. Here, we …

Competition in working memory reduces frontal guidance of visual selection

D Soto, CM Greene, A Chaudhary, P Rotshtein - Cerebral cortex, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Working memory (WM) representations can bias visual selection to matching stimuli in the
field. WM biases can, however, be modulated by the level of cognitive load, with WM …

A parieto-medial temporal pathway for the strategic control over working memory biases in human visual attention

D Soto, CM Greene, A Kiyonaga… - Journal of …, 2012 - Soc Neuroscience
The contents of working memory (WM) can both aid and disrupt the goal-directed allocation
of visual attention. WM benefits attention when its contents overlap with goal-relevant …

The neural consequences of attentional prioritization of internal representations in visual working memory

MI Sahan, AD Sheldon, BR Postle - Journal of Cognitive …, 2020 - direct.mit.edu
Although humans can hold multiple items in mind simultaneously, the contents of working
memory (WM) can be selectively prioritized to guide future behavior. We explored whether …

[HTML][HTML] Resource-sharing between internal maintenance and external selection modulates attentional capture by working memory content

A Kiyonaga, T Egner - Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2014 - frontiersin.org
It is unclear why and under what circumstances working memory (WM) and attention
interact. Here, we apply the logic of the time-based resource-sharing (TBRS) model of WM …

Common and distinct neural regions for the guidance of selection by visuoverbal information held in memory: converging evidence from fMRI and rTMS

D Soto, P Rotshtein, J Hodsoll, C Mevorach… - Human brain …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Recent research indicates that working memory (WM) and attention interact, with attention
automatically biased to stimuli that match the contents of WM. Though there is behavioral …