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  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Psychology

Background:

  • Working memory (WM) involves encoding and maintaining goal-relevant information, even amidst environmental distractions.
  • The neural basis of individual differences in WM, particularly concerning heteromodal cortex networks, remains incompletely understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the roles of the default mode network (DMN) and frontoparietal network (FPN) in individual differences in visuospatial working memory.
  • To examine how resting-state functional connectivity within these networks relates to resisting distraction during encoding and maintenance phases of WM.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized behavioral assessments of a visuospatial WM task to measure distraction resistance.
  • Analyzed resting-state functional connectivity of the DMN and FPN in relation to WM performance.

Main Results:

  • Stronger DMN connectivity with medial visual and retrosplenial cortex correlated with reduced impact of encoding distractions.
  • Weaker DMN and FPN connectivity with visual regions was linked to enhanced WM performance during the maintenance phase, especially when distractors were present.

Conclusions:

  • Enhanced coupling between heteromodal cortex and visual-spatial regions facilitates WM encoding by mitigating distractor interference.
  • Reduced visual coupling within DMN and FPN supports WM maintenance by improving the ability to disregard irrelevant environmental stimuli.