September 11, 2025Frontiers in Human NeuroscienceOpen Access

Neural signatures of prioritization and facilitation in retrieving repeated items in visual working memory

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ANAbhishek Singh NarvariaNational Brain Research Centre ABArpan BanerjeeNational Brain Research Centre DPD. PomeroyIndian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata

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Modified Sternberg task reveals the neural mechanisms behind prioritizing repeated items in visual working memory, indicating cognitive control differences.

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Slower response times and poorer accuracy for not-repeated items signify that they are less prioritized than repeated items.
Cognitive control mechanisms are engaged more for not-repeated items, highlighted by increased frontal theta and parietal alpha power.
Specific differences in spectral perturbations across frequency bands reflect distinct neural processing for repeated versus not-repeated items.
The study underlines the role of EEG rhythms in facilitating recognition of repeated items while shielding non-repeated items from distraction.

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Narvaria et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68d418c5713b0b5dfea63e4f https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2025.1642615

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Modified Sternberg task reveals the neural mechanisms behind prioritizing repeated items in visual working memory, indicating cognitive control differences.

Neural signatures of prioritization and facilitation in retrieving repeated items in visual working memory

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Neural signatures of prioritization and facilitation in retrieving repeated items in visual working memory

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