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

View Full Paper

Ask AI

Bookmark

Authors

Discussion

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

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.

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

View Full Paper

Ask AI

Bookmark

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