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An Electrophysiological Dissociation of Encoding vs. Maintenance Failures in Visual-Spatial Working Memory.


ABSTRACT: Working memory (WM) performance varies substantially among individuals but the precise contribution of different WM component processes to these functional limits remains unclear. By analyzing different types of responses in a spatial WM task, we recently demonstrated a functional dissociation between confident and not-confident errors reflecting failures of WM encoding and maintenance, respectively. Here, we use event-related brain potentials to further explore this dissociation. Healthy participants performed a delayed orientation-discrimination task and rated their response confidence for each trial. The encoding-related N2pc component was significantly reduced for confident errors compared to confident correct responses, which is indicative of an encoding failure. In contrast, the maintenance-related contra-lateral delay activity was similar for these response types indicating that in confident error trials, WM representations - potentially the wrong ones - were maintained accurately and with stability throughout the delay interval. However, contra-lateral delay activity measured during the early part of the delay period was decreased for not-confident errors, potentially reflecting compromised maintenance processes. These electrophysiological findings contribute to a refined understanding of the encoding and maintenance processes that contribute to limitations in WM performance and capacity.

SUBMITTER: Mayer JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7105797 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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An Electrophysiological Dissociation of Encoding vs. Maintenance Failures in Visual-Spatial Working Memory.

Mayer Jutta S JS   Korinth Sebastian S   Peters Benjamin B   Fiebach Christian J CJ  

Frontiers in psychology 20200324


Working memory (WM) performance varies substantially among individuals but the precise contribution of different WM component processes to these functional limits remains unclear. By analyzing different types of responses in a spatial WM task, we recently demonstrated a functional dissociation between confident and not-confident errors reflecting failures of WM encoding and maintenance, respectively. Here, we use event-related brain potentials to further explore this dissociation. Healthy partic  ...[more]

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