Selective attention in visual short-term memory consolidation.

Full Abstract

Selection of visual short-term memory content takes place during perceptual and postperceptual processing. We studied postperceptual selection in a change detection task, in which spatially distributed cues preceding the memory array marked potential change targets. In the 550-730 ms interval after the memory array onset but not in the following retention interval, event-related potentials showed larger contralateral delay activity when the spatial cues were selective than when they were unselective. This finding implies that distributed precueing strengthens the visual short-term memory representation during an extended memory consolidation phase.

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Author/s: Herrero, Jose L (JL); Nikolaev, Andrey R (AR); Raffone, Antonino (A); van Leeuwen, Cees (C);

Affiliation: Laboratory for Perceptual Dynamics, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan.

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Publication Type: Journal Article

Journal: Neuroreport (Neuroreport), published in England. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2009-May; vol 20 (issue 7) : pp 652-6

Dates: Created 2009/04/28; Completed 2009/06/16;

PMID: 19349924, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 6/16/2009, IMS Date: 16 Jun 2009 00:00:00)

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