A theory of working memory without consciousness or sustained activity
bioRxiv Preprint Server December 14, 2016 Darinka Trübutschek, Sebastien Marti, Andrés Ojeda et al. 47 citations preprint
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 demonstrate 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...