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SUBMITTER: Trubutschek D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5589417 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Trübutschek Darinka D Marti Sébastien S Ojeda Andrés A King Jean-Rémi JR Mi Yuanyuan Y Tsodyks Misha M Dehaene Stanislas S
eLife 20170718
Working memory and conscious perception are thought to share similar brain mechanisms, yet recent reports of non-conscious working memory challenge this view. Combining visual masking with magnetoencephalography, we investigate the reality of non-conscious working memory and dissect its neural mechanisms. In a spatial delayed-response task, participants reported the location of a subjectively unseen target above chance-level after several seconds. Conscious perception and conscious working memor ...[more]