Object-based Attention Underlies the Storage of Event Files in Working Memory

Lu, Xiqian; Zhao, Yangfan; Shui, Rende; Shen, Mowei; Gao, Zaifeng

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“…2.1). We focused on failures in higher‐order cognitive processing and more deliberate response selection processes (Hoffmann et al, 2014; Hoffmann & Beste, 2015; Hoffmann & Falkenstein, 2010; Pailing & Segalowitz, 2004) using a mental rotation paradigm as an experimental vehicle that also well connects to the theoretical framing relating to event files because event file coding processes can be taxed through working memory demands (Bernhard Hommel, 2004; Lu et al, 2017, 2019). This is because the event file concept shows strong connections with memory encoding and retrieval processes (Frings et al, 2020) partly because the event file has been conceptualized to reflect a memory trace specifying stimulus–response associations (Bernhard Hommel, 2009).…”

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“…One means of doing so is to tax event file coding processes. Event file coding processes can be taxed through working memory demands (Hommel, 2004;Lu et al, 2017Lu et al, , 2019. This is because the event file concept shows strong connections with memory encoding and retrieval processes (Frings et al, 2020) partly because the event file has been conceptualized to reflect a memory trace specifying stimulus-response associations (Hommel, 2009).…”

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The neural stability of perception–motor representations affects action outcomes and behavioral adaptation

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Actions can fail – even though this is well known, little is known about what distinguishes neurophysiological processes preceding errors and correct actions. In this study, relying on the Theory of Event Coding, we test the assumption that only specific aspects of information coded in EEG activity are relevant for understanding processes leading to response errors. We examined N = 69 healthy participants who performed a mental rotation task and combined temporal EEG signal decomposition with multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA) and source localization analyses. We show that fractions of the EEG signal, primarily representing stimulus–response translation (event file) processes and motor response representations, are essential. Stimulus representations were less critical. The source localization results revealed widespread activity modulations in structures including the frontopolar, the middle and superior frontal, the anterior cingulate cortex, the cuneus, the inferior parietal cortex, and the ventral stream regions. These are associated with differential effects of the neural dynamics preceding correct/erroneous responses. The temporal‐generalization MVPA showed that event file representations and representations of the motor response were already distinct 200 ms after stimulus presentation and this lasted till around 700 ms. The stability of this representational content was predictive for the magnitude of posterror slowing, which was particularly strong when there was no clear distinction between the neural activity profile of event file representations associated with a correct or an erroneous response. The study provides a detailed analysis of the dynamics leading to an error/correct response in connection to an overarching framework on action control.

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The neural stability of perception–motor representations affects action outcomes and behavioral adaptation

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Hoffmann

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Psychophysiology

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“…Available evidence from working memory research suggests that TBA is particularly relevant during the sequential coding of working memory items 82 . This sequential (episodic) structure of working memory encoding has strong similarities with event-file coding processes 15,92,93 central for BRAC 6 encompassing a memory trace specifying stimulus-response associations 43 . From that perspective, and considering BRAC also stressing the role of sequential primeprobe processes in commonly used experiments to measure action control, the role of TBA or surprise signals during action control may root in binding and retrieval processes and thus in the dynamic management of event-files reflecting episodic memory traces.…”

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Towards a systematization of brain oscillatory activity in actions

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Information processing in the brain is governed by oscillatory activity. Activity oscillations in specific frequency bands (theta, alpha, beta and gamma) have been associated with various cognitive functions. A drawback of this is that the plethora of findings led to considerable uncertainty as to the functional relevance of activity in different frequency bands and their interrelation. Here, we use a novel cognitive-science theoretical framework to better understand and conceptually harmonize neurophysiological research on human action control. We outline how this validated starting point can systematize and probably reframe the functional relevance of oscillatory activity relevant for action control and beyond.

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Object-based Attention Underlies the Storage of Event Files in Working Memory

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The neural stability of perception–motor representations affects action outcomes and behavioral adaptation

The neural stability of perception–motor representations affects action outcomes and behavioral adaptation

Towards a systematization of brain oscillatory activity in actions

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