Mark G. Stokes

This study investigates the role of neural oscillations in working memory prioritization using EEG, finding that beta power scales with priority shift magnitude and predicts memory fidelity.

This study investigates how reward influences neural oscillations and their impact on cognitive flexibility, finding that higher anticipated rewards lead to desynchronisation of alpha and beta oscillations, which correlate with improved task performance.

The paper shows that working memory shapes neural geometry in human EEG during learning by transforming task features into low-dimensional representations.

This study shows how neural circuits adjust their representation of task-relevant and irrelevant stimuli based on noise and metabolic cost, aligning with minimal representational strategies observed in primate prefrontal cortex.

This study shows that stimulating the frontopolar cortex disrupts counterfactual processing by altering local field potentials and decision-making behavior in macaques.

The paper investigates how working memory maintains both transformed and original representations of stimuli, finding that original representations persist alongside transformed ones even when no longer task-relevant.

The paper investigates optimal information loading into working memory in prefrontal cortex using mathematical analysis, simulations, and monkey recordings, finding orthogonal inputs lead to dynamic coding.

This paper trains recurrent neural networks to model how retro-cues transform memory representations in macaque prefrontal cortex during a working memory task.

This study shows that prefrontal cortex representations change from high-dimensional and nonlinear to low-dimensional and rule-selective as animals learn a new task rule.

The paper investigates how sensory history affects working-memory performance, finding two distinct biases in behavior and neural representations.

The paper dissociates two strategies for reward-based decision timing using EEG and representational similarity analysis, showing latent reward tracking differs from distance-to-goal tracking.

This study investigates whether attention selects individual features or whole objects in working memory using EEG, eye-tracking, and behavioral measures, finding that attention spreads between an object's features.

This study identifies two functional states in working memory: an active state for immediate task-relevant items and a latent state for prospective items, showing how they contribute to decision-making.

This study decodes visual colour from scalp EEG using Linear Discriminant Analysis, showing it reflects sensory qualities and is comparable to orientation decoding.

This study compares item-based and feature-based attention in visual working memory using behavioral and EEG measures, finding similar but distinct benefits for recall accuracy and neural oscillations.

This study investigates value-driven attentional capture (VDAC) using MEG, finding that learned value modulates spatial selection in visual and parietal cortex without altering early visual processing.

The paper investigates how working memory maintains stable mental states through dynamic neural activity, finding that while the coding scheme is stable, memories drift over time.

This study shows that reward prospect enhances neural coding of task rules, improving cognitive flexibility during decision-making.

The paper investigates whether impulse responses during working memory maintenance are sensory-specific or multimodal, finding evidence for both unimodal and bimodal neural responses in visual and auditory working memory.

This study introduces a temporally unconstrained decoding method to track trial-specific neural dynamics in stimulus processing and decision making, revealing consistent but time-varying processing stages.

The paper shows that neurons with different intrinsic timescales contribute to distinct phases of working memory processing in primates.

The paper uses EEG decoding to show anticipation enhances target coding and delays distractor interference in visual perception tasks with temporal distractors.