The Dynamic Management of Working Memory Is Supported by Aperiodic Neural Activity.

ABSTRACT: "Metacontrol" refers to the ability to achieve an adaptive balance between more persistent and more flexible cognitive-control styles. Recent evidence from tasks focusing on the regulation of response conflict and of switching between tasks suggests a consistent relationship between aperiodic EEG activity and task conditions that are likely to elicit a more persistent versus more flexible control style. Here we investigated whether this relationship between metacontrol and aperiodic activity can also be demonstrated for working memory (WM). We analyzed EEG and behavioral outcomes from two independent samples performing the reference-back task, providing an internal replication of the obtained findings. In both studies we found significant increases in the aperiodic exponent when new inform

SUBMITTER: Zhang H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12421218 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature