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EEG SIGNALS REPRESENT UPDATED MEMORY REPRESENTATIONS IN VISUAL WORKING MEMORY
| Title: | EEG SIGNALS REPRESENT UPDATED MEMORY REPRESENTATIONS IN VISUAL WORKING MEMORY. |
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| Name(s): |
Shin, Young Seon , author Sheremata, Summer L. , Thesis advisor Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences Charles E. Schmidt College of Science |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Genre: | Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation | |
| Date Created: | 2022 | |
| Date Issued: | 2022 | |
| Publisher: | Florida Atlantic University | |
| Place of Publication: | Boca Raton, Fla. | |
| Physical Form: | application/pdf | |
| Extent: | 83 p. | |
| Language(s): | English | |
| Abstract/Description: | Visual working memory (VWM) is a core cognitive system that supports our ability to maintain and manipulate visual information temporarily when sensory information is no longer present in the environment. VWM and mental rotation, a form of mental imagery, require the ability to generate internal images in the absence of stimuli. Both cognitive processes share visual buffer and are associated with representing and manipulating visual information, however, little is known about the intersection between VWM and mental rotation. In the current work, mental rotation was adopted to study updated mnemonic contents in VWM. In this dissertation, I asked whether the brain mechanisms that support VWM and mental rotation overlap. Participants were asked to remember the orientation of grating or to remember and manipulate, that is mentally rotate, the orientation of grating. Behavioral results showed that mental rotation induced lower fidelity representations of orientation. This confirmed that additional usage in visual buffer to manipulate the visual representation provoked by mental rotation involved negative influence in memory fidelity. In the second study, EEG recording was conducted while participants performed the same task. Visual representations were reconstructed from brain oscillations using the inverted encoding model (IEM). It was found that orientation information from the reconstruction was represented in the amplitude of alpha oscillations (8 – 12 Hz) for both maintained and updated mnemonic contents. Together, this work provides evidence that memory manipulation driven by mental rotation has a decisive effect on the fidelity of visual representations in VWM. Additionally this dissertation demonstrates that the updated memory representations as well as the maintained memory representations are carried in EEG oscillations. | |
| Identifier: | FA00013890 (IID) | |
| Degree granted: | Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2022. | |
| Collection: | FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection | |
| Note(s): | Includes bibliography. | |
| Subject(s): |
Short-term memory Visual Perception Electroencephalography Mental rotation |
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| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013890 | |
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| Host Institution: | FAU | |
| Is Part of Series: | Florida Atlantic University Digital Library Collections. |
