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Title: | Nonconscious information can be identified as task-relevant but not prioritized in working memory | Authors: | Pedale, Tiziana Fontan, Aurelie Grill, Filip Bergström, Fredrik Eriksson, Johan |
Keywords: | consciousness; attention; distraction; endogenouscontrol; fMRI | Issue Date: | 20-Feb-2023 | Publisher: | Oxford University Press | Project: | Swedish Research Council (grant number2016-02931) FCT (grant number CEECIND/03661/2017) |
Serial title, monograph or event: | Cerebral Cortex | Volume: | 33 | Issue: | 5 | Abstract: | Two critical features of working memory are the identification and appropriate use of task-relevant information while avoiding distraction. Here, in 3 experiments, we explored if these features can be achieved also for nonconscious stimuli. Participants performed a delayed match-to-sample task in which task relevance of 2 competing stimuli was indicated by a cue, and continuous flash suppression was used to manipulate the conscious/nonconscious visual experience. Experiment 1 revealed better-than-chance performance with nonconscious stimuli, demonstrating goal-directed use of nonconscious task-relevant information. Experiment 2 demonstrated that the cue that defined task relevance must be conscious to allow such goal-directed use. In Experiment 3, multi-voxel pattern analyses of brain activity revealed that only the target was prioritized and maintained during conscious trials. Conversely, during nonconscious trials, both target and distractor were maintained. However, decoding of task relevance during the probe/test phase demonstrated identification of both target and distractor information. These results show that identification of task-relevant information can operate also on nonconscious material. However, they do not support the prioritization of nonconscious task-relevant information, thus suggesting a mismatch in the attentional mechanisms involved during conscious and nonconscious working memory. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10316/113767 | ISSN: | 1047-3211 1460-2199 |
DOI: | 10.1093/cercor/bhac208 | Rights: | openAccess |
Appears in Collections: | FPCEUC - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais I&D CINEICC - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais |
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