Clayton E. Curtis

This study shows ketamine broadens neural spatial tuning and impairs spatial working memory in healthy humans, linking NMDAR antagonism to cortical microcircuit disruptions.

The paper investigates how neural synchrony between prefrontal and visual cortex supports visual working memory using magnetoencephalography in humans.

The paper investigates whether the size of visual field maps in the brain correlates with working memory precision and finds a positive association.

The paper shows that human working memory representations in cortex are probabilistic, with neural variance encoding memory uncertainty and predicting behavior.

This study uses high-resolution fMRI to show that human prefrontal cortex encodes visual memory with a topological organization similar to animal models.

The paper investigates how working memory information flows across the cortical hierarchy using fMRI decoding, finding drift-like dynamics and top-down information flow from higher to lower visual areas.

The paper identifies a neural mechanism for resource allocation in working memory by showing how frontal cortex feedback modulates visual cortex activity based on item priority.

This study shows that disrupting human V1 with TMS impairs visual working memory fidelity specifically for targets in the stimulated visual field.

The paper shows that visual cortex responses during memory differ in spatial tuning from perception, with feedback widening tuning during both working and long-term memory.

This study uses transcranial magnetic stimulation to test how prefrontal cortex perturbations affect working memory resource allocation, finding that disrupting control processes improves memory for low-priority items.

The paper tests whether visual working memory representations are sensory abstractions by manipulating stimulus properties and analyzing neural activity patterns.

This study investigates how cognitive effort affects neural representations during working memory using fMRI, finding that frontal cortex activity predicts visual cortex decoding accuracy during effortful trials.

The paper decomposes the costs of cognitive effort by analyzing wage requests for cognitive tasks and identifies specific working memory components that are costly.

This study uses fMRI to investigate working memory dynamics in the human cortex during a memory-guided saccade task, revealing both stable and dynamic representations with distinct patterns in early visual cortex.

This study investigates whether attention and working memory share neural mechanisms by showing that brain activity patterns during external and internal selection are interchangeable.

The paper shows that prioritizing visual working memory items increases neural population gain in early visual cortex, improving memory precision for high-priority items.

This study shows that the brain represents visual working memory content and uncertainty as probabilistic distributions in retinotopic and mid-dorsal stream cortical areas using fMRI data.

This study examines how distraction affects working memory representations in visual cortex using fMRI, finding that distraction temporarily reduces representation fidelity but does not cause catastrophic loss.

This paper reviews two major research arcs on working memory, focusing on persistent neural activity and computational decoding approaches.

This study uses computational neuroimaging to show that human superior colliculus encodes working memory representations, distinct from visual or motor properties.

The paper investigates how humans allocate visual working memory resources based on task importance, finding strategic prioritization and error minimization.

This study shows that frontal and parietal cortex have distinct roles in working memory, with parietal cortex coding retrospective sensory information and frontal cortex coding prospective action.

The paper maps and characterizes visual field map clusters in human frontoparietal cortex using a novel task and nonlinear population receptive field modeling, revealing topographic organization similar to visual cortex.