Vividly imagining a song or a melody is a skill that many people accomplish with relatively
little effort. However, we are only beginning to understand how the brain represents, holds …

While distributed cortical areas represent working memory contents, their necessity for
memory maintenance has been questioned. To understand whether these regions serve …

How the human brain maintains information in working memory (WM), a process critical for
all our goal-directed function, has been debated for decades. Classic neurophysiological …

Background Recent studies indicate that both prefrontal and visual regions play critical roles
in visual working memory (VWM), with prefrontal regions mainly associated with executive …

Listeners often operate in complex acoustic environments, consisting of many concurrent
sounds. Accurately encoding and maintaining such auditory objects in short‐term memory is …

Working memory is one of the most important higher-order cognitive abilities, allowing us to
hold information that is no longer present “in mind” in preparation for future action. We …

Imagine a song you know by heart. With little effort you could sing it or play it vividly in your
mind. However, we are only beginning to understand how the brain represents, holds, and …

Making sense of our environment requires us to extract temporal and spatial information
from multiple sensory modalities, particularly audition and vision. Often, we must hold this …

Since the concept of working memory was proposed, where the memorized information is
temporarily maintained in the brain has been a central issue in the field. Early …

Superagers, older adults with memory performance similar to middle-aged individuals, were
studied to identify key neural networks responsible for their brain function connectivity. Using …