Cortically disparate visual features evoke content-independent load signals during storage in working memory

工作记忆 计算机科学 视觉短时记忆 刺激(心理学) 心理学 语音识别 模式识别(心理学) 认知心理学 人工智能 神经科学 认知
作者
Henry M. Jones,William Thyer,Darius Suplica,Edward Awh
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期刊:The Journal of Neuroscience [Society for Neuroscience]
卷期号:: e0448242024-e0448242024
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DOI:10.1523/jneurosci.0448-24.2024
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It is well established that holding information in working memory (WM) elicits sustained stimulus-specific patterns of neural activity. Nevertheless, here we provide evidence for a distinct class of neural activity that tracks the number of individuated items in working memory, independent of the type of visual features stored. We present two EEG studies of young adults of both sexes that provide robust evidence for a signal tracking the number of individuated representations in working memory, regardless of the specific feature values stored. In study 1, subjects maintained either colors or orientations across separate blocks in a single session. We found near-perfect generalization of the load signal between these two conditions, despite being able to simultaneously decode which feature had been voluntarily stored. In Study 2, participants attended to two features with very distinct cortical representations: color and motion coherence. We again found evidence for a neural load signal that robustly generalized across these distinct visual features, even though cortically disparate regions process color and motion coherence. Moreover, representational similarity analysis provided converging evidence for a content-independent load signal, while simultaneously showing that unique variance in EEG activity tracked the specific features that were stored. We posit that this load signal reflects a content-independent “pointer” operation that binds objects to the current context while parallel but distinct neural signals represent the features that are stored for each item in memory. Significance Statement The format of representations in working memory, along with its capacity limits, are highly debated. Here, we provide strong evidence for a content-independent load signal. We theorize this signal reflects the assignment of pointers that bind objects to a spatiotemporal context. This theory provides a unifying framework that may capture many of the behavioral phenomena seen in WM studies, from object-based benefits to dissociations between the number and precision of representations in WM.
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