Sensory recruitment for visual working memory

We know that we see objects in the environment by virtue of the workings of the visual system. How do we hold these visual representations “in mind” when we can no longer see them, yet we need them to guide our behavior? Here, cognitive neuroscientist John Serences describes his influential experiment that tested one possibility: the sensory recruitment hypothesis. In so doing he also provides a cogent explanation of some of the logic underlying the multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA) of fMRI data.

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Relevant paper:
Serences, J. T., Ester, E. F., Vogel, E. K., & Awh, E. (2009). Stimulus-specific delay activity in human primary visual cortex. Psychological science, 20(2), 207-214.