Reactivation of Previous Experiences in a Working Memory Task.

ABSTRACT: Recent experiences influence the processing of new information even when those experiences are irrelevant to the current task. Does this reflect the indirect effects of a passively maintained representation of the previous experience, or is this representation reactivated when a new event occurs? To answer this question, we attempted to decode the orientation of the stimulus on the previous trial from the electroencephalogram on the current trial in a working memory task. Behavioral data confirmed that the previous-trial stimulus orientation influenced the reported orientation on the current trial, even though the previous-trial orientation was now task irrelevant. In two independent experiments, we found that the previous-trial orientation could be decoded from the current-trial electroen

SUBMITTER: Bae GY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6472175 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature