Edward Awh

This study investigates how people selectively remove irrelevant visual working memory items during testing, finding that categorical relevance, not spatial location, drives this process.

The paper investigates whether superior visual working memory for meaningful objects reflects expanded capacity or reduced proactive interference, finding the latter is the primary factor.

This study uses EEG and decoding techniques to show that population-level neural activity dissociates preparatory overt from covert attention, revealing an additional spatially selective process in overt attention.

This study uses fMRI to show that working memory load signals are distributed across the cortex and change over time, not localized to parietal cortex.

The paper reanalyzes EEG data to distinguish aperiodic activity from alpha oscillations in visual working memory, finding distinct roles for each in encoding and maintaining spatial location.

This study shows that alpha-band EEG activity tracks dynamic transformations of spatial working memory representations during mental imagery tasks.

This study investigates pupil dynamics during sustained attention and working memory tasks, finding that pupil size correlates with attention levels and working memory load.

The paper shows sustained attention and spatial attention have distinct effects on long-term memory encoding through three experiments and EEG analysis.

The paper shows that spatial suppression of salient distractors improves target selection during visual search, as evidenced by reaction time and neural signal changes.

This study compares the neural representations of working memory and long-term memory in occipital and parietal cortex using fMRI and multivariate pattern analysis, finding shared and distinct coding formats.

The paper uses EEG to show that covert attention increases the gain of spatially tuned population responses in early visual processing.

The paper demonstrates that multivariate analysis of EEG voltage topography provides a sensitive and generalizable index of working memory load across multiple studies and tasks.

The paper investigates attentional capture in working memory, showing that relevant and irrelevant interrupters trigger different sub-component processes affecting WM maintenance.

The paper uses EEG connectivity patterns to predict individual differences in working memory capacity and fluid intelligence across datasets.

The paper shows that covert spatial attention speeds the formation of individuated object representations, as evidenced by an earlier N2pc onset when target location is cued.

The paper investigates how task-irrelevant interruptions affect neural representations of working memory using EEG in humans, finding distinct responses in CDA and lateralized alpha power.

The paper uses EEG and alpha power analysis to show that both contingent and non-contingent cues capture attention, with distinct temporal dynamics in raw EEG and alpha band activity.

This study uses alpha-band oscillations and an inverted encoding model to track and reconstruct precise spatial memory retrieval from long-term memory.

The paper tests whether multiple items can be stored concurrently in working memory by analyzing alpha-band EEG activity during a spatial memory task.

The paper distinguishes neural processes for spatial attention and object-based storage in visual working memory using EEG recordings during attention and memory tasks.

The paper investigates how neural mechanisms for working memory differ based on task goals, finding distinct roles for oscillatory alpha-band power and evoked EEG activity in continuous recall and visual search tasks.