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Kelly Cotton, Timothy J. Ricker
Summary: Recent research suggests that consolidating an item into working memory improves long-term recognition performance. In a study where participants completed tasks involving stimuli identification and delayed recognition, results showed that despite a slight advantage in immediate stimuli identification, long-term recognition was significantly improved for items that were consolidated into working memory.
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(2021)
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Sami R. Yousif, Monica D. Rosenberg, Frank C. Keil
Summary: The study found that task-irrelevant spatial structure can improve working memory, independent of long-term spatial associations and unique to space rather than other features. It also showed that spatial structure can be separated from spatial interference, challenging the theories of 'spatial interference' and 'visuospatial bootstrapping'.
Review
Psychology, Mathematical
Kelly Cotton, Timothy J. Ricker
Summary: This review examines the relationship between working memory consolidation and long-term memory consolidation, discussing proposed models and neural mechanisms, as well as clinical findings. Two hypotheses are proposed to explain the relationship between these processes.
PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW
(2022)
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Alicia Forsberg, Dominic Guitard, Nelson Cowan
Summary: The debate over whether information in working memory is rapidly forgotten or transferred to long-term memory continues. Research shows that the capacity limit of working memory contributes to subsequent long-term memory failures and holding information in working memory enhances long-term memory encoding. The findings suggest that a limitation in working memory capacity creates a bottleneck for encoding of unique objects, with a relatively large effect size.
PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW
(2021)
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Shengzi Zeng, Xuanyi Lin, Jingxuan Wang, Xiaoqing Hu
Summary: The study investigated the short- and long-term impacts of sleep and sleep deprivation on emotional memory using behavioral, electrophysiological, and subjective affective measures. The results showed that sleep preserved emotional memory and affective tones in the short term, while sleep deprivation led to attenuated emotional responses to negative memories over time. EEG analyses revealed different neurocognitive processing of emotional memories between the two groups.
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Clinical Neurology
Shengzi Zeng, Xuanyi Lin, Jingxuan Wang, Xiaoqing Hu
Summary: This study investigated the short- and long-term impacts of sleep and sleep deprivation on emotional memory using behavioral and electrophysiological measures. The results showed that sleep preserved negative and neutral memories in the short term, but attenuated emotional responses to negative memories in the long term. EEG analyses revealed distinct neurocognitive processing of emotional memories between the sleep and sleep-deprivation groups.
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Behavioral Sciences
Aimee Martin, Stefanie Becker
Summary: The study found that the similarity effect is not due to feature similarity, but to an enhanced sensitivity to relative color changes in VSTM. Additionally, VSTM load increases with the number of memory items requiring encoding different relative colors.
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Neurosciences
Selma Lugtmeijer, Linda Geerligs, Kamen A. Tsvetanov, Daniel J. Mitchell, Cam-CAN, Karen L. Campbell
Summary: Working memory declines throughout adulthood and the neural mechanisms underlying this decline are limited. This study used a lifespan cohort and a whole-brain approach to investigate age-related changes in working memory load-modulated functional connectivity. Results showed that functional connectivity strength decreased with increasing age throughout the cortex, but the relationship between connectivity and behavior was non-significant.
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Neurosciences
Baiwei Liu, Xinyu Li, Jan Theeuwes, Benchi Wang
Summary: It has been traditionally believed that information retrieved from long-term memory (LTM) needs to be brought back into working memory (WM). However, this study demonstrates that retrieval from LTM is possible even when WM capacity is fully occupied. EEG results indicate that retrieving items from LTM while WM is fully engaged enhances the suppression of alpha oscillations, suggesting alternative mechanisms for accessing LTM when WM is fully occupied.
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Neurosciences
Andrea Pavan, Filippo Ghin, Gianluca Campana
Summary: The study investigated the role of hMT+ in memory encoding and storage of moving sequences, showing worse performance in middle positions. rTMS applied during the early phase impaired both recognition accuracy and precision of the retained motion direction. The findings support a model of visual short-term memory with variable resolution for each stored item, linked to memory resources and functional integrity of hMT+.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Phivos Phylactou, Andria Shimi, Nikos Konstantinou
Summary: This study investigated the role of the sensory visual cortex in visual short-term memory using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). The results showed inhibitory effects of TMS on the sensory visual cortex during the early (200 ms) and late (1000 ms) maintenance phase, supporting the theory of sensory recruitment in which perceptual and memory processes rely on the same neural substrates in the sensory visual cortex.
ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE
(2023)
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Cell Biology
Xinxin Yin, Yu Wang, Jiejue Li, Zengcai V. Guo
Summary: Despite symmetric brain structures, the left and right hemispheres in mammals do not contribute equally to certain cognitive functions. This study focuses on the anterior lateral motor cortex (ALM) in mice and investigates the asymmetrical interaction between the left and right ALM during a tactile-based decision-making task. The results show that neural activity and encoding capability are similar across hemispheres, but only one hemisphere dominates in behavior. Inhibition of the dominant ALM disrupts encoding capability in the non-dominant ALM. Variable behavioral deficits can be predicted by the influence on contralateral activity across sessions, mice, and tasks.
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Psychology
Tianrui Luo, Liqiang Huang, Mi Tian
Summary: The retro-cue effect (RCE) enhances working memory performance when attention is directed to the tested position during the retention interval. This study investigates the relationship between RCE and working memory consolidation. Longer consolidation time erased the standard RCE in Experiments 1A and 1B. In Experiment 2, longer consolidation time diminished the RCE in a simultaneous display paradigm. Experiment 3 showed that post-cue time was used to consolidate memory traces. Experiment 4 demonstrated that longer consolidation time protected memory representations from invalid cue costs. The results support a consolidation account of the RCE.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-LEARNING MEMORY AND COGNITION
(2023)
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Neurosciences
Irene Navarro-Lobato, Mariam Masmudi-Martin, Maria E. Quiros-Ortega, Celia Gaona-Romero, Marta Carretero-Rey, Cristina Rey Blanes, Zafar U. Khan
Summary: By overexpressing a memory enhancer called RGS14(414) in the perirhinal cortex of male rats, object recognition memory (ORM) was enhanced and short-term ORM was converted into long-term ORM within a key temporal window of 40 to 60 minutes post-exposure. During this conversion, 14-3-3 zeta upregulation facilitated the process, while beyond 60 minutes, it mediated the consolidation of stable memory into long-lasting ORM by regulating BDNF signaling.
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH
(2021)
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Psychology, Mathematical
Markus Conci, Philipp Kreyenmeier, Lisa Kroell, Connor Spiech, Hermann J. Mueller
Summary: The current study aimed to dissociate stimulus complexity from object meaning in VWM by presenting identical stimuli that either resembled meaningful configurations (real European flags) or rearranged to form perceptually identical but meaningless (fake) flags. The results showed that VWM capacity for real flags was comparable to unicolor baseline stimuli (and higher than for fake flags), demonstrating that relatively complex, yet meaningful objects reveal a VWM capacity comparable to simple, unicolored memory items. Additionally, the nationality benefit was related to individual flag recognition performance, illustrating the importance of object knowledge in VWM.
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(2018)
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(2020)
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