Changes to information in working memory depend on distinct removal operations

Holding information in working memory is essential for cognition, but removing unwanted thoughts is equally important. Here we use multivariate pattern analyses of brain activity to demonstrate the successful manipulation and removal of information from working memory using different strategies incl...

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Autores principales: Kim, Hyojeong, Smolker, Harry R., Smith, Louisa L., Banich, Marie T., Lewis-Peacock, Jarrod A.
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Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7721711/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33288756
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20085-4
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description Holding information in working memory is essential for cognition, but removing unwanted thoughts is equally important. Here we use multivariate pattern analyses of brain activity to demonstrate the successful manipulation and removal of information from working memory using different strategies including suppressing a specific thought, replacing a thought with a different one, and clearing the mind of all thought. These strategies are supported by distinct brain regions and have differential consequences for allowing new information to be encoded.
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spelling pubmed-77217112020-12-11 Changes to information in working memory depend on distinct removal operations Kim, Hyojeong Smolker, Harry R. Smith, Louisa L. Banich, Marie T. Lewis-Peacock, Jarrod A. Nat Commun Article Holding information in working memory is essential for cognition, but removing unwanted thoughts is equally important. Here we use multivariate pattern analyses of brain activity to demonstrate the successful manipulation and removal of information from working memory using different strategies including suppressing a specific thought, replacing a thought with a different one, and clearing the mind of all thought. These strategies are supported by distinct brain regions and have differential consequences for allowing new information to be encoded. Nature Publishing Group UK 2020-12-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7721711/ /pubmed/33288756 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20085-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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