scholarly journals Refresh my memory: Episodic memory reinstatements intrude on working memory maintenance

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abigail N. Hoskin ◽  
Aaron M. Bornstein ◽  
Kenneth A. Norman ◽  
Jonathan D. Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Episodic Memory ◽  
Pattern Analysis ◽  
Memory Performance ◽  
Delay Period ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Common View ◽  
Memory Research ◽  
Recognition Memory Performance ◽  
Adaptive Nature

AbstractA fundamental question in memory research is how different forms of memory interact. Previous research has shown that people rely on working memory (WM) in short-term recognition tasks; a common view is that episodic memory (EM) only influences performance on these tasks when WM maintenance is disrupted. However, retrieval of memories from EM has been widely observed during brief periods of quiescence, raising the possibility that EM retrievals during maintenance-critically, before a response can be prepared-might affect short-term recognition memory performance even in the absence of distraction. We hypothesized that this influence would be mediated by the lingering presence of reactivated EM content in WM. We obtained support for this hypothesis in three experiments, showing that delay-period EM reactivation introduces incidentally-associated information (context) into WM, and that these retrieved associations negatively impact subsequent recognition, leading to substitution errors (Experiment 1) and slowing of accurate responses (Experiment 2). fMRI pattern analysis showed that slowing is mediated by the content of EM reinstatement (Experiment 3). These results expose a previously hidden influence of EM on WM, raising new questions about the adaptive nature of their interaction.

Prefrontal working memory activity predicts episodic memory performance: A neuroimaging study

2020 ◽  
Vol 379 ◽  
pp. 112307 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca J. Melrose ◽  
Evan Zahniser ◽  
Stacy S. Wilkins ◽  
Joseph Veliz ◽  
Arpi S. Hasratian ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Episodic Memory ◽  
Memory Performance ◽  
Neuroimaging Study

scholarly journals The Dynamic-Processing Model of Working Memory

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 378-387
Author(s):  
Nathan S. Rose
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Brain Activity ◽  
Memory Performance ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Dynamic Activity ◽  
Mind And Brain ◽  
Latent Representations ◽  
Dynamic Processing ◽  
Conventional Models ◽  
The Mind

Recent shifts in the understanding of how the mind and brain retain information in working memory (WM) call for revision to traditional theories. Evidence of dynamic, “activity-silent,” short-term retention processes diverges from conventional models positing that information is always retained in WM by sustained neural activity in buffers. Such evidence comes from machine-learning methods that can decode patterns of brain activity and the simultaneous administration of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to causally manipulate brain activity in specific areas and time points. TMS can “ping” brain areas to both reactivate latent representations retained in WM and affect memory performance. On the basis of these findings, I argue for a supplement to sustained retention mechanisms. Brain-decoding methods also reveal that dynamic levels of representational codes are retained in WM, and these vary according to task context, from perceptual (sensory) codes in posterior areas to abstract, recoded representations distributed across frontoparietal regions. A dynamic-processing model of WM is advanced to account for the overall pattern of results.

scholarly journals Practice makes imperfect: Working memory training can harm recognition memory performance

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (8) ◽  
pp. 1168-1182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura E. Matzen ◽  
Michael C. Trumbo ◽  
Michael J. Haass ◽  
Michael A. Hunter ◽  
Austin Silva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Recognition Memory ◽  
Memory Performance ◽  
Working Memory Training ◽  
Memory Training ◽  
Recognition Memory Performance

Phonological short-term and working memory in bilinguals' native and second language

2012 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 1005-1037 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARGARITA KAUSHANSKAYA ◽  
JEEWON YOO
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Short Term Memory ◽  
Memory Performance ◽  
Judgment Task ◽  
Nonword Repetition ◽  
Executive Processes ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Specific Knowledge ◽  
L1 And L2 ◽  
Repetition Task

ABSTRACTThe goal of the current study was to examine bilinguals' phonological short-term and working memory performance in their native/first (L1) and second (L2) languages. Korean–English bilinguals were tested in both Korean (L1) and English (L2). Short-term memory (STM) was measured via a nonword repetition task, where participants repeated nonwords that increased in length. Working memory (WM) was measured via a complex task, where the nonword repetition task was combined with an animacy judgment task. In general, bilinguals performed better on the STM task than on the WM task, and with shorter nonwords than with longer nonwords. Results also revealed that L1 STM performance was superior to L2 STM performance, but only for the longest nonwords, whereas L1 WM performance was superior to L2 WM performance across all length levels. In addition, correlation analyses between bilinguals' L1 and L2 performance revealed stronger cross-linguistic associations for the WM task than for the STM task. Together, the findings suggest that WM tasks may engage domain-general central executive processes in bilinguals, whereas STM skills may depend on language-specific knowledge in the L1 and the L2.

scholarly journals Neural Evidence of the Strategic Choice Between Working Memory and Episodic Memory in Prospective Remembering

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jarrod A. Lewis-Peacock ◽  
Jonathan D. Cohen ◽  
Kenneth A. Norman
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Episodic Memory ◽  
Proactive Interference ◽  
Prospective Memory ◽  
Secondary Task ◽  
Pattern Analysis ◽  
Memory Load ◽  
Strategic Choice ◽  
Behavioral Measures ◽  
Prospective Remembering

AbstractTheories of prospective memory (PM) posit that it can be subserved either by working memory (WM) or episodic memory (EM). Testing and refining these multiprocess theories of PM requires a way of tracking participants’ reliance on WM versus EM. Here we use multi-voxel pattern analysis (MVPA) to derive a trial-by-trial measure of WM use in prospective memory. We manipulated strategy demands by varying the degree of proactive interference (which impairs EM) and the memory load required to perform the secondary task (which impairs WM). For the condition in which participants were pushed to rely more on WM, our MVPA measures showed 1) greater WM use and 2) a trial-by-trial correlation between WM use and PM behavior. Finally, we also showed that MVPA measures of WM use are not redundant with other behavioral measures: in the condition in which participants were pushed more to rely on WM, using neural and behavioral measures together led to better prediction of PM accuracy than either measure on its own.

scholarly journals Early and Late Components of EEG Delay Activity Correlate Differently with Scene Working Memory Performance

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy M. Ellmore ◽  
Kenneth Ng ◽  
Chelsea P. Reichert
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Memory Performance ◽  
High Amplitude ◽  
Delay Period ◽  
Spectral Evolution ◽  
Consistent Finding ◽  
Transient Nature ◽  
Neural Transmission ◽  
Source Level ◽  
Short Time

AbstractSustained and elevated activity during the working memory delay period has long been considered the primary neural correlate for maintaining information over short time intervals. This idea has recently been reinterpreted in light of findings generated from multiple neural recording modalities and levels of analysis. To further investigate the sustained or transient nature of activity, the temporal-spectral evolution (TSE) of delay period activity was examined in humans with high density EEG during performance of a Sternberg working memory paradigm with a relatively long six second delay and with novel scenes as stimuli. Multiple analyses were conducted using different trial window durations and different baseline periods for TSE computation. Sensor level analyses revealed transient rather than sustained activity during delay periods. Specifically, the consistent finding among the analyses was that high amplitude activity encompassing the theta range was found early in the first three seconds of the delay period. These increases in activity early in the delay period correlated positively with subsequent ability to distinguish new from old probe scenes. Source level signal estimation implicated a right parietal region of transient early delay activity that correlated positively with working memory ability. This pattern of results adds to recent evidence that transient rather than sustained delay period activity supports visual working memory performance. The findings are discussed in relation to synchronous and desynchronous intra- and inter-regional neural transmission, and choosing an optimal baseline for expressing temporal-spectral delay activity change.

scholarly journals Measuring memory is harder than you think: A crisis of measurement in memory research

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy F. Brady ◽  
Maria Martinovna Robinson ◽  
Jamal Rodgers Williams ◽  
John Wixted
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
False Alarm ◽  
False Alarm Rate ◽  
Eyewitness Identification ◽  
Memory Performance ◽  
Memory Task ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Memory Research ◽  
Hit Rate ◽  
Memory Signals

There is a crisis of measurement in memory research, with major implications for theory and practice. This crisis arises because of a critical complication present when measuring memory using the recognition memory task that dominates the study of working memory and long-term memory (“did you see this item? yes/no” or “did this item change? yes/no”). Such tasks give two measures of performance, the “hit rate” (how often you say you previously saw an item you actually did previously see) and the “false alarm rate” (how often you say you saw something you never saw). Yet what researchers want is one single, integrated measure of memory performance. Integrating the hit and false alarm rate into a single measure, however, requires a complex problem of counterfactual reasoning that depends on the (unknowable) distribution of underlying memory signals: when faced with two people differing in both hit rate and false alarm rate, the question of who had the better memory is really “who would have had more hits if they each had the same number of false alarms”. As a result of this difficulty, different literatures in memory research (e.g., visual working memory, eyewitness identification, picture memory, etc) have settled on a variety of distinct metrics to combine hit rates and false alarm rates (e.g., A’, corrected hit rate, percent correct, d’, diagnosticity ratios, K values, etc.). These metrics make different, contradictory assumptions about the distribution of latent memory signals, and all of their assumptions are frequently incorrect. Despite a large literature on how to properly measure memory performance, spanning decades, real-life decisions are often made using these metrics, even when they subsequently turn out to be wrong when memory is studied with better measures. We suggest that in order for the psychology and neuroscience of memory to become a cumulative, theory-driven science, more attention must be given to measurement issues. We make a concrete suggestion: the default memory task should change from old/new (“did you see this item’?”) to forced-choice (“which of these two items did you see?”). In situations where old/new variants are preferred (e.g., eyewitness identification; theoretical investigations of the nature of memory decisions), receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis should always be performed.

scholarly journals Extradural Motor Cortex Stimulation might improve episodic and working memory in patients with Parkinson’s disease

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carla Piano ◽  
Marco Ciavarro ◽  
Francesco Bove ◽  
Daniela Di Giuda ◽  
Fabrizio Cocciolillo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Parkinson’S Disease ◽  
Working Memory ◽  
Parkinson's Disease ◽  
Motor Cortex ◽  
Episodic Memory ◽  
Memory Task ◽  
Motor Symptoms ◽  
Motor Cortex Stimulation ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Verbal Episodic Memory

Abstract Electric Extradural Motor Cortex Stimulation (EMCS) is a neurosurgical procedure suggested for treatment of patients with advanced Parkinson’s disease (PD). We report two PD patients treated by EMCS, who experienced worsening of motor symptoms and cognition 5 years after surgery, when EMCS batteries became discharged. One month after EMCS restoration, they experienced a subjective improvement of motor symptoms and cognition. Neuropsychological assessments were carried out before replacement of batteries (off-EMCS condition) and 6 months afterward (on-EMCS condition). As compared to off-EMCS condition, in on-EMCS condition both patients showed an improvement on tasks of verbal episodic memory and backward spatial short-term/working memory task, and a decline on tasks of selective visual attention and forward spatial short-term memory. These findings suggest that in PD patients EMCS may induce slight beneficial effects on motor symptoms and cognitive processes involved in verbal episodic memory and in active manipulation of information stored in working memory.

scholarly journals AN OVERVIEW ON “MEMORY DYSFUNCTION, TYPES OF MEMORY, AND ITS CLINICAL DISORDERS”

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rohit Jaysing Bhor
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Brain Injury ◽  
Episodic Memory ◽  
Huntington's Disease ◽  
Semantic Memory ◽  
Clinical Significance ◽  
Procedural Memory ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Memory Dysfunction ◽  
Clinical Disorders

ABSTRACTAll things considered, memory debilitation is ordinarily seen by doctors in different controls including neurology, psychiatry, pharmaceutical, andsurgery. Memory misfortune is frequently the most crippling element of numerous disarranges, hindering the typical every day exercises of thepatients, and significantly influencing their families. A few recognitions about memory, for example, the ideas of “short term” and “long haul” haveoffered route to a more refined understanding and enhanced order frameworks. These progressions result from neuropsychological investigationsof patients with central mind injuries, neuroanatomical studies in people and creatures, tests in creatures, positron-discharge tomography, usefulattractive reverberation imaging, and possibilities. Memory is presently comprehended to be a gathering of mental capacities that rely on a fewframeworks inside the cerebrum. In this article, we will talk about the accompanying four memory frameworks that are of clinical significance: Wordymemory, semantic memory, procedural memory, and working memory. Memory frameworks can be isolated into those that are definitive and thosethat are non-decisive. Revelatory or express memory will be memory for occasions that can be deliberately reviewed. Non-definitive or verifiablememory, by correlation, is memory that is communicated as an adjustment in conduct and is regularly oblivious.Keywords: Episodic memory, Semantic memory, Working memory, Agnosia, Brain injury, Alzheimer’s disease, Huntington’s disease, Wernicke–Korsakoff’s Syndrome.

scholarly journals Deficits in Conditional Discrimination Learning in Children with ADHD are Independent of Delay Aversion and Working Memory

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 1381 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meyer ◽  
Beckers ◽  
Tripp ◽  
van der Oord
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Discrimination Learning ◽  
Conditional Discrimination ◽  
Memory Performance ◽  
Clinical Status ◽  
Delay Aversion ◽  
Behavioral Repertoire ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Children With Adhd ◽  
Situational Demands

Adaptive behavior requires the adjustment of one’s behavioral repertoire to situational demands. The learning of situationally appropriate choice behavior can be operationalized as a task of Conditional Discrimination Learning (CDL). CDL requires the acquisition of hierarchical reinforcement relations, which may pose a particular challenge for children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), particularly in light of documented deficits in short-term/working memory and delay aversion in ADHD. Using an arbitrary Delayed Matching-To-Sample task, we investigated whether children with ADHD (N = 46), relative to Typically Developing children (TD, N = 55), show a deficit in CDL under different choice delays (0, 8, and 16 seconds) and whether these differences are mediated by short-term/working memory capacity and/or delay aversion. Children with ADHD demonstrated poorer CDL than TD children under 8 and 16-second delays. Non-delayed CDL performance did not differ between groups. CDL differences were not mediated by short-term/working memory performance or delay aversion. Moreover, CDL performance under an 8-second delay was a better predictor of clinical status than short-term/working memory performance or delay aversion. CDL, under conditions of delay, is impaired in children with ADHD. This may lead to difficulties discriminating between different situational demands and adapting behavior according to the prevailing reward contingencies or expectations.

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