Jane Jacob

Attention, working memory, and phenomenal experience of WM content: memory levels determined by different types of top-down modulation.

Frontiers in Psychology October 19, 2015 Jane Jacob, Christianne Jacobs, Juha Silvanto

What is the role of top-down attentional modulation in consciously accessing working memory (WM) content? In influential WM models, information can exist in different states, determined by allocation of attention; placing the original memory representation in the center of focused attention gives rise to conscious access. Here we discuss various lines of evidence indicating that such...