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Sisi Wang 王思思^1,2, Freek van Ede¹

¹Institute for Brain and Behavior Amsterdam, Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands sisi.wang@ttu.edu freek.van.ede@vu.nl.

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The brain prioritizes visual information and action plans based on environmental cues. Action prioritization is more cautious and develops gradually with lower cue certainty compared to visual prioritization.

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Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Cognitive Psychology
Human Behavior

Background:

Environmental cues help the brain anticipate future actions by prioritizing relevant information in working memory.
Previous studies examined visual or motor prioritization separately, leaving uncertainty about how cue reliability affects both simultaneously.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate how cue reliability differentially influences visual and motor prioritization in working memory.
To understand the neural dynamics of visual and motor prioritization under varying levels of environmental cue certainty.

Main Methods:

A visual-motor working-memory task was designed to isolate neural dynamics of visual and motor prioritization.
Cue reliability was manipulated (100%, 80%, 60%) to assess its impact on prioritization.
Electroencephalography (EEG) was used to measure brain activity in human volunteers.

Main Results:

Visual prioritization strength and timing remained stable across different cue reliability levels.
Motor prioritization significantly scaled with cue reliability, developing more gradually with lower certainty.
Differential effects of cue reliability on visual versus motor prioritization were observed.

Conclusions:

Visual and motor prioritization in working memory are differentially affected by environmental cue certainty.
Motor prioritization appears to be more cautious, requiring higher certainty before deployment.
These findings highlight distinct neural mechanisms underlying the prioritization of visual representations and action plans.