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  • Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • The nature of visual working memory (VWM) representations is debated, with ongoing discussion about whether they are sensory or non-sensory.
  • Understanding VWM mechanisms is crucial for cognitive science and understanding perception-action cycles.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the nature of VWM representations by examining the influence of attention on memory recall.
  • To determine if VWM maintenance relies on sensory or non-sensory mechanisms.

Main Methods:

  • Participants performed a delayed-estimation task, memorizing an array of six colors.
  • External attention was manipulated using a precue, and internal attention was manipulated using a retrocue.
  • A perceptual surround suppression effect was leveraged to analyze VWM representations based on cue-probe offsets.

Main Results:

  • Both external and internal attention cues induced a surround suppression effect.
  • Memory performance exhibited a Mexican-hat profile concerning cue-probe offsets, indicative of sensory processing.
  • This pattern suggests that VWM representations are modulated by sensory mechanisms.

Conclusions:

  • The findings provide compelling evidence that visual working memory maintenance is fundamentally based on sensory mechanisms.
  • Attention, whether external or internal, modulates these sensory representations within VWM.
  • This research contributes to resolving the debate on the representational nature of VWM.