The time course of encoding and maintenance of task-relevant versus irrelevant object features in working memory.

ABSTRACT: Access to WM can be restricted on the basis of goal-relevant properties such as spatial location. However, the extent of voluntary control over which features of an attended multi-feature object are encoded and maintained in WM is debated. Some evidence suggests that attending to an object leads to obligatory storage of all of its features, whereas other evidence suggests that access to WM can be restricted to only goal-relevant features. Another possibility is that all features are initially encoded, but irrelevant features are removed from WM over time. To address these various possibilities, we used pattern classification of EEG signals to track the temporal evolution of representations reflecting the encoding and storage of task-relevant and irrelevant features in WM. In different bloc

SUBMITTER: Bocincova A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6358497 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature