Ingrid R Olson

..We suggest that the fidelity of information held by VLTM is inferior to that of information held by VSTM and thus provides no additional benefit over what is extracted on the fly by VSTM...

..Because perceptual inputs remain segregated into dorsal (auditory), medial (olfactory) and ventral (visual) streams, the integration of emotion with perception is channel specific...

..Impaired memory could not be attributed to memory load or perceptual problems. These findings suggest that the MTLs are critical for accurate visual WM...

..Additional analyses suggest that the hippocampus per se is critical for accurate conjunction working memory. We propose that the hippocampus is critically involved in memory for conjunctions at both short and long delays...

..Perceiving and processing beauty appear to require little attention and to bias subsequent cognitive processes. These facts may make beauty difficult to ignore, possibly leading to its importance in social evaluations...

..The authors suggest that a major role of learning in VWM is to mediate which information gets retained, rather than to directly increase VWM capacity...

..Taken together, these results indicate that memory for "where" influences memory for "what." We propose that there is an asymmetry in memory according to which object memory always contains location information...

..Together, these data suggest that initial encoding of spatial information for relatively small numbers of items is largely preserved in healthy older adults and that representations of spatial information persist over short intervals...

..The intraparietal sulcus may be involved in predicting the location of an unseen target for future hand or eye movements...

..The observed performance dissociation suggests that the posterior parietal lobe plays a particularly vital role in working memory retrieval...

..These findings indicate that the PPC does not have a central role in association formation per se and, instead, indicate that the PPC is involved in other aspects of episodic memory...

..Deficits were found across several stimulus categories. These results provide neuropsychological support for neuroimaging results, and more generally indicate that the parietal lobe serves a general role in diverse forms of VWM...

..The retro-cue was difficult to ignore, suggesting that strategic control is low. The retro-cue effect appears to be within conscious awareness but not under full strategic control...

..Two patients with the largest lesions extending into either frontal or cerebellar regions showed no learning. These data suggest that implicit sequence learning can occur despite damage to the right parietal lobe...

..When subjects were viewing motion, a more limited network was correlated with MT/V5, suggesting MT/V5 was acting in concert with a smaller network specific to the task...

..Here we assess whether parietal lobe damage affects episodic memory on a different task: the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) false-memory paradigm...

..All patients judged trustworthy-looking faces more positively than untrustworthy-looking faces. The findings suggest that the hippocampus is not critical for learning affective associations between traits and faces...

..And lastly, the ATL contains sensory processing subdivisions that fall along superior (auditory), inferior (visual), polar (audiovisual) subdivisions...

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..The results show that MTL damage impairs both speed and accuracy of visual working memory across tasks. We speculate that the hippocampus is generally necessary for memory encoding...

..In this particular case, our patient's memory for dates far outstripped that of normal individuals and served as a keen retrieval cue, allowing him to access information that was otherwise unavailable...

..When eye movements were constrained, distractors once again intruded into memory. These findings suggest that top-down control processes are insufficient to filter the contents of visual memory...

..These findings provide additional constraints regarding the mechanistic role of the parietal cortex in memory...

..Data from these groups strongly support the validity of the paradigm. The use of a nonmusical paradigm to identify AP may facilitate research into many aspects of this phenomenon...

..These findings suggest that the PPC maintains or shifts internal attention among the representations of items in WM...

..Training group participants were also significantly more likely to self-report improvements in everyday attention. Our findings support the use of ecological tasks as a measure of transfer in an older adult population...

..We conclude by formalizing several open questions that are intended to encourage future research in this rapidly developing area of memory research...

..Likewise, her distance judgments in peripersonal space were more impaired than those in extrapersonal space. The patient showed partial preservation in size processing of novel objects even when familiar size cues were removed...

..Our results suggest that perceptual training increases the involvement of early sensory neurons in the segmentation of trained shapes, and that successful segmentation requires perceptual skills beyond shape recognition alone...

..The results showed that cathodal stimulation selectively impaired WM on recognition trials. These data replicate and extend our previous findings of preserved WM recall and impaired WM recognition in patients with parietal lobe lesions...

..These findings are consistent with the notion that the anterior temporal lobes are critically involved in the retrieval of people's names...

..Additional tests show that it is unlikely that their free recall deficit can be explained by general mental imagery problems. In sum, the parietal lobe appears to have a critical role in recollection aspects of episodic memory...

..The implications of these findings for the use of tDCS as tool for rehabilitation of age-related loss of name recall are discussed...

..More generally, our results show that perfusion fMRI may be applied to the study of mental operations that produce gradual changes in neural activity...

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..Our results support a weak-object hypothesis of VSTM capacity that suggests that VSTM is limited by both the number of objects and the feature composition of those objects...

..Our results suggest that some relational grouping cues are represented in change detection even when they are task irrelevant...

..We then present data from a nonmusician who nevertheless appears to possess AP. We conclude that musical training is not necessary for the development of AP...

..This study extends previous results, using other sensory combinations, and other tasks, indicating involvement of the claustrum in sensory integration...

..They extend these findings by demonstrating that cortical plasticity may underlie special musical skills as well. These data illustrate the potential value of case studies to investigate particularly rare phenotypes...

..These findings indicate that the ATLs are part of a neuronal network supporting social cognition and that they are engaged when tasks demand access to social conceptual knowledge...

..She showed performance impairments of between 2 and 4 standard deviations on all sub-tests. The PFPB is freely available for non-commercial use...