The contralateral delay activity as a neural measure of visual working memory

R Luria, H Balaban, E Awh, EK Vogel - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral …, 2016 - Elsevier
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 …

Hits and misses: leveraging tDCS to advance cognitive research

ME Berryhill, DJ Peterson, KT Jones… - Frontiers in …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
The popularity of non-invasive brain stimulation techniques in basic, commercial, and
applied settings grew tremendously over the last decade. Here, we focus on one popular …

Chunking as a rational strategy for lossy data compression in visual working memory.

MR Nassar, JC Helmers, MJ Frank - Psychological review, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
The nature of capacity limits for visual working memory has been the subject of an intense
debate that has relied on models that assume items are encoded independently. Here we …

Two equals one: two human actions during social interaction are grouped as one unit in working memory

X Ding, Z Gao, M Shen - Psychological science, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Every day, people perceive other people performing interactive actions. Retaining these
actions of human agents in working memory (WM) plays a pivotal role in a normal social life …

The passive state: A protective mechanism for information in working memory tasks.

J Zhang, C Ye, HJ Sun, J Zhou, T Liang… - Journal of …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Memory representations can be stored in a passive state in a visual working memory (VWM)
task. However, it remains unclear whether the representations stored in the passive state are …

Organization principles in visual working memory: Evidence from sequential stimulus display

Z Gao, Q Gao, N Tang, R Shui, M Shen - Cognition, 2016 - Elsevier
Although the mechanisms of visual working memory (VWM) have been studied extensively
in recent years, the active property of VWM has received less attention. In the current study …

Hierarchical structure is employed by humans during visual motion perception

J Bill, H Pailian, SJ Gershman… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
In the real world, complex dynamic scenes often arise from the composition of simpler parts.
The visual system exploits this structure by hierarchically decomposing dynamic scenes …

Contralateral delay activity tracks the influence of Gestalt grouping principles on active visual working memory representations

DJ Peterson, F Gözenman, H Arciniega… - Attention, Perception, & …, 2015 - Springer
Recent studies have demonstrated that factors influencing perception, such as Gestalt
grouping cues, can influence the storage of information in visual working memory (VWM). In …

The number of objects determines visual working memory capacity allocation for complex items

H Balaban, R Luria - NeuroImage, 2015 - Elsevier
The goal of the present study was to examine whether visual working memory (WM) capacity
allocation is determined solely by complexity, with the number of objects being redundant …

Evidence for the beneficial effect of perceptual grouping on visual working memory: An empirical study on illusory contour and a meta-analytic study

J Li, J Qian, F Liang - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
The capacity of visual working memory (VWM) is found to be extremely limited. Past
research shows that VWM can be facilitated by Gestalt principles of grouping, however, it …