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October 1, 2025Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Retinotopic Spatial Working Memory Representations Are Not Affected by Task-irrelevant Visual Stimuli

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KVKelvin Vu-CheungEEEdward F. EsterTSThomas C. Sprague

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Overview

Evaluating the impact of task-irrelevant visual stimuli on spatial working memory representations, findings suggest stability in recall performance.

Key Points

  • Spatial working memory representations remain unaffected by task-irrelevant visual stimuli during delay periods.
  • Though strong visual responses to interrupting stimuli were observed, behavior on recall tasks did not change.
  • Analysis used an inverted encoding model to assess retinotopic working memory representation fidelity.
  • These findings point to the resilience of visual working memory against irrelevant visual input, supporting movement guidance.

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Vu-Cheung et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68dd91cffe798ba2fc498c64https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn.a.109
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