Eye movements disrupt EEG alpha-band coding of behaviorally relevant and irrelevant spatial locations held in working memory

Abstract

Neural oscillations in the alpha frequency band support selective attention to visual items and maintenance of their spatial locations in human working memory. Here, we investigate how eye movements disrupt representations of item locations held in working memory. Although it was not possible to recover item locations from alpha during eye movements, retained location information could be recovered from select lower frequency bands. This suggests that during eye movements, stored spatial information may be represented in other frequencies.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
May 01, 2023
Source ID
10.1152/jn.00302.2021

Entities

People

  • Anabel Salimian
  • Barry Giesbrecht
  • Caitlin Gregory
  • Kamryn Pickett
  • Mary H. Maclean
  • Tom Bullock

Organizations

  • Army Research Office
  • University of California
  • University of California, Santa Barbara

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Biology
  • Computer science
  • Psychology

Readers

  • Brain and Cognitive Science; Experimental Psychology; Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Speech Processing/Speech Recognition.
  • Vision Science/Vision Psychology/Cognitive Neuroscience.