Flexible top-down control in the interaction between working memory and perception

Chunyue Teng; Jacqueline M. Fulvio; Jiefeng Jiang; Bradley R. Postle

doi:10.1167/jov.22.11.3

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Flexible top-down control in the interaction between working memory and perception

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Flexible top-down control in the interaction between working memory and perception

Chunyue Teng, Jacqueline M. Fulvio, Jiefeng Jiang and Bradley R. Postle

Journal of vision (Charlottesville, Va.), Vol.22(11), pp.3-3

10/07/2022

DOI: 10.1167/jov.22.11.3

PMCID: PMC9578544

PMID: 36205937

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Successful goal-directed behavior often requires continuous sensory processing while simultaneously maintaining task-related information in working memory (WM). Although WM and perception are known to interact, little is known about how their interactions are controlled. Here, we tested the hypothesis that WM perception interactions engage two distinct modes of control – proactive and reactive – in a manner similar to classic conflict-adaptation tasks (e.g. Stroop, flanker, and Simon). Participants performed a delayed recall-of-orientation WM task, plus a standalone visual discrimination-of-orientation task the occurred during the delay period, and with the congruity in orientation between the tasks manipulated. Proactive control was seen in the sensitivity of task performance to the previous trial's congruity (i.e. a Gratton effect). Reactive control was observed in a repulsive serial-dependence produced by incongruent discriminanda. Quantitatively, these effects were explained by parameters from a reinforcement learning-based model that tracks trial-to-trial fluctuations in control demand: reactive control by a phasic control prediction error (control PE), and proactive control by a tonic level of predicted conflict updated each trial by the control PE. Thus, WM-perception interactions may be controlled by the same mechanisms that govern conflict in other domains of cognition, such as response selection.

cognitive control

computational modeling

top-down control

visual perception

working memory

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Title: Subtitle: Flexible top-down control in the interaction between working memory and perception
Creators: Chunyue Teng - University of Wisconsin–Madison
Jacqueline M. Fulvio - University of Wisconsin–Madison
Jiefeng Jiang - University of Iowa
Bradley R. Postle - University of Wisconsin–Madison
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Journal of vision (Charlottesville, Va.), Vol.22(11), pp.3-3
DOI: 10.1167/jov.22.11.3
PMID: 36205937
PMCID: PMC9578544
NLM abbreviation: J Vis
eISSN: 1534-7362
Publisher: The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
Language: English
Date published: 10/07/2022
Academic Unit: Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
Record Identifier: 9984306659202771

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