Reorienting Spatial Attention within Visual Working Memory

Abstract

4Attention and working memory (WM) are intertwined core cognitive processes.

Mnemonic attention in analogy to perceptual attention: harmony but not uniformity

“…We simultaneously measured neural activities with magnetoencephalography (MEG) in this experiment. Relevant findings can be found in another paper (Han & Ku, 2019).…”

“…But how could this happen? Our previous work (Han & Ku, 2019) suggested that the stronger prefrontal activities of peripheral retro-cues relative to central retro-cues, the larger behavioral differentiations between the two types of retro-cues. Given that the activations in prefrontal regions have been reported to play a causal role in confidence ratings (Kwok, Cai, & Buckley, 2019), we proposed one possible account that confidence ratings in this experiment may make the prefrontal activities in the central retro-cue task more alike to the peripheral one, and thus led to no difference between the two retro-cues.…”

“…These data were separately reported in our previous work (Han & Ku, 2019) but that report mainly focused on patterns of neural activity. Here, we combined these two datasets to show an overall behavioral pattern.…”