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SUBMITTER: Hakim N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6472178 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hakim Nicole N Adam Kirsten C S KCS Gunseli Eren E Awh Edward E Vogel Edward K EK
Psychological science 20190228 4
Complex cognition relies on both on-line representations in working memory (WM), said to reside in the focus of attention, and passive off-line representations of related information. Here, we dissected the focus of attention by showing that distinct neural signals index the on-line storage of objects and sustained spatial attention. We recorded electroencephalogram (EEG) activity during two tasks that employed identical stimulus displays but varied the relative demands for object storage and sp ...[more]