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  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Neuroimaging

Background:

  • Active manipulation of visual information in working memory is thought to require a dedicated neural workspace.
  • This workspace should enable both storage of sensory information and flexible transformations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To identify neural representations supporting flexible visual working memory.
  • To investigate if early visual and parietal regions contribute to active memory manipulation.

Main Methods:

  • Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was employed.
  • Multivariate decoding techniques were used to analyze brain activity patterns.
  • Participants performed a task involving memorizing, mentally rotating, and re-memorizing complex visual patterns.

Main Results:

  • Neural patterns in early visual areas and the posterior parietal cortex encoded the initially memorized image.
  • These same brain regions also encoded the transformed image content after mental rotation.
  • Evidence suggests these posterior brain regions form the neural basis for visual working memory.

Conclusions:

  • The findings indicate that visual working memory is supported by a flexible neural workspace located in posterior brain regions.
  • This workspace facilitates both the maintenance and active transformation of visual information.
  • The study challenges the notion of a solely prefrontal cortex-based workspace for such cognitive functions.