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September 18, 2025eNeuroOpen Access

No selective attentional shift despite prefrontal activation during a working-memory task with unconscious stimuli

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TPTiziana PedaleOKOlympia KarampelaJEJohan Eriksson

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Overview

Participants performed better when cues were valid, revealing limits of attentional control with unconscious stimuli.

Key Points

  • Participants struggled to reorient attention despite significant neural activity in the prefrontal cortex.
  • Cues that correctly indicated target locations improved performance, but invalid cues did not facilitate attentional shifts.
  • No significant activation was observed in parietal regions for either valid or invalid unconscious stimuli.
  • Findings suggest that conscious and unconscious working memory engage attention control differently.

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Pedale et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68d461d231b076d99fa614a1https://doi.org/10.1523/eneuro.0183-25.2025
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