Attention shift in human verbal working memory: Priming contribution and dynamic brain activation

Zhihao Li; Min Bao; Xiangchuan Chen; Daren Zhang; Shihui Han; Sheng He; Xiaoping Hu

doi:10.1016/j.brainres.2006.01.032

Attention shift in human verbal working memory: Priming contribution and dynamic brain activation

Zhihao Li, Min Bao, Xiangchuan Chen, Daren Zhang, Shihui Han, Sheng He, Xiaoping Hu

Psychology (Twin Cities)

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Abstract

When multiple items in working memory need to be accessed and manipulated, the internal attention should switch between them and, this switching process is time consuming (H. Garavan. Serial attention within working memory. Mem. Cognit. 26 (1998) 263-276). However, it is not clear how much of this switching cost is due to the existence or absence of the stimulus identification priming. With a figure identification and counting task, we demonstrate a small but significant priming contribution to this attention-switching cost. Furthermore, through 64-channel event-related potential (ERP) recordings, we found two ERP correlates (at 280 ms and 388 ms) of this internal attention-switching function. Source localization analysis shows dynamic brain activation starts from the temporal-occipital region and finishes in the left prefrontal cortex. The occipital-prefrontal and cingulate-prefrontal co-activations were orderly observed. We discuss the present ERP results along with our previous fMRI findings and suggest a dominant role of the left prefrontal cortex associated with attention shifts in verbal working memory.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	131-142
Number of pages	12
Journal	Brain Research
Volume	1078
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2006.01.032
State	Published - Mar 17 2006

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We thank Stephen LaConte for improving the quality of the writing. This research is supported by the National Nature Science Foundation of China (30370478, 30328017, 30470572, 30225026, 30328016), Ministry of Science and Technology of China (2006CB500705), and NIH (grant number RO1 EB002009).

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Event-related potential
Working memory

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