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Parietal and Frontal Cortex Encode Stimulus-Specific Mnemonic Representations during Visual Working Memory by Ester, Edward F., Sprague, Thomas C., Serences, John T.

“…Working memory (WM) enables the storage and manipulation of information in an active state. WM storage has long been associated with sustained increases in…”
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Changes in behavioral priority influence the accessibility of working memory content by Ester, Edward F., Pytel, Paige

“…•We decoded high- and low-priority working memory representations from EEG recordings obtained while human volunteers performed a retrospectively cued WM…”
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Reconstructions of Information in Visual Spatial Working Memory Degrade with Memory Load by Sprague, Thomas C., Ester, Edward F., Serences, John T.

“…Working memory (WM) enables the maintenance and manipulation of information relevant to behavioral goals. Variability in WM ability is strongly correlated with…”
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Stimulus-Specific Delay Activity in Human Primary Visual Cortex by Serences, John T., Ester, Edward F., Vogel, Edward K., Awh, Edward

“…Working memory (WM) involves maintaining information in an on-line state. One emerging view is that information in WM is maintained via sensory recruitment,…”
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Sensory gain outperforms efficient readout mechanisms in predicting attention-related improvements in behavior by Itthipuripat, Sirawaj, Ester, Edward F, Deering, Sean, Serences, John T

“…Spatial attention has been postulated to facilitate perceptual processing via several different mechanisms. For instance, attention can amplify neural…”
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Internal selective attention is delayed by competition between endogenous and exogenous factors by Ester, Edward F., Nouri, Asal

“…External attention is mediated by competition between endogenous (goal-driven) and exogenous (stimulus-driven) factors, with the balance of competition…”
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The Roles of Salience and Value in Inattention Among Children With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A Pilot Investigation by Musser, Erica D, Morris, Stephanie S J, Feeney, Kathleen, Pintos Lobo, Rosario, Ester, Edward F

“…Although inattention is a key symptom subdomain of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), the mechanisms underlying this subdomain and related…”
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Attending multiple items decreases the selectivity of population responses in human primary visual cortex by Anderson, David E, Ester, Edward F, Serences, John T, Awh, Edward

“…Multiple studies have documented an inverse relationship between the number of to-be-attended or remembered items in a display ("set size") and task…”
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Restoring Latent Visual Working Memory Representations in Human Cortex by Sprague, Thomas C., Ester, Edward F., Serences, John T.

“…Working memory (WM) enables the storage and manipulation of limited amounts of information over short periods. Prominent models posit that increasing the…”
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How Do Visual and Parietal Cortex Contribute to Visual Short-Term Memory? by Ester, Edward F, Rademaker, Rosanne L, Sprague, Thomas C

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Retrospective Cues Mitigate Information Loss in Human Cortex during Working Memory Storage by Ester, Edward F, Nouri, Asal, Rodriguez, Laura

“…Working memory (WM) enables the flexible representation of information over short intervals. It is well established that WM performance can be enhanced by a…”
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Categorical Biases in Human Occipitoparietal Cortex by Ester, Edward F, Sprague, Thomas C, Serences, John T

“…Categorization allows organisms to generalize existing knowledge to novel stimuli and to discriminate between physically similar yet conceptually different…”
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A neural measure of precision in visual working memory by Ester, Edward F, Anderson, David E, Serences, John T, Awh, Edward

“…Recent studies suggest that the temporary storage of visual detail in working memory is mediated by sensory recruitment or sustained patterns of…”
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Spatially Global Representations in Human Primary Visual Cortex during Working Memory Maintenance by Ester, Edward F, Serences, John T, Awh, Edward

“…Recent studies suggest that visual features are stored in working memory (WM) via sensory recruitment or sustained stimulus-specific patterns of activity in…”
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Retrospective cue benefits in visual working memory are limited to a single location at a time by DiPuma, Ashley, Lockhart, Holly A., Emrich, Stephen M., Ester, Edward F.

“…Working memory (WM) performance can be improved by an informative cue presented during storage. This effect, termed a retrocue benefit , can be used to study…”
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Discrete Resource Allocation in Visual Working Memory by Barton, Brian, Ester, Edward F, Awh, Edward

“…Are resources in visual working memory allocated in a continuous or a discrete fashion? On one hand, flexible resource models suggest that capacity is…”
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Visual crowding cannot be wholly explained by feature pooling by Ester, Edward F, Klee, Daniel, Awh, Edward

“…Visual perception is dramatically impaired when a peripheral target is embedded within clutter, a phenomenon known as visual crowding. Despite decades of…”
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Feature-Selective Attentional Modulations in Human Frontoparietal Cortex by Ester, Edward F, Sutterer, David W, Serences, John T, Awh, Edward

“…Control over visual selection has long been framed in terms of a dichotomy between "source" and "site," where top-down feedback signals originating in…”
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Neural measures reveal a fixed item limit in subitizing by Ester, Edward F, Drew, Trafton, Klee, Daniel, Vogel, Edward K, Awh, Edward

“…For centuries, it has been known that humans can rapidly and accurately enumerate small sets of items, a process referred to as subitizing. However, there is…”
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Task-irrelevant distractors in the delay period interfere selectively with visual short-term memory for spatial locations by Marini, Francesco, Scott, Jerry, Aron, Adam R., Ester, Edward F.

“…Visual short-term memory (VSTM) enables the representation of information in a readily accessible state. VSTM is typically conceptualized as a form of “active”…”
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