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Alpha suppression indexes a spotlight of visual-spatial attention that can shine on both perceptual and memory representations
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NSTL
Springer Nature
Although researchers have been recording the human electroencephalogram (EEG) for almost a century, we still do not completely understand what cognitive processes are measured by the activity of different frequency bands. The 8- to 12-Hz activity in the alpha band has long been a focus of this research, but our understanding of its links to cognitive mechanisms has been rapidly evolving recently. Here, we review and discuss the existing evidence for two competing perspectives about alpha activity. One view proposes that the suppression of alpha-band power following the onset of a stimulus array measures attentional selection. The competing view is that this same activity measures the buffering of the task-relevant representations in working memory. We conclude that alpha-band activity following the presentation of stimuli appears to be due to the operation of an attentional selection mechanism, with characteristics that mirror the classic views of attention as selecting both perceptual inputs and representations already stored in memory.
Alpha band activityAttentionWorking memoryElectrophysiologyWORKING-MEMORYSELECTIVE ATTENTIONBAND OSCILLATIONSNEURAL MECHANISMSSEMANTIC MEMORYFOCAL ATTENTIONTOP-DOWNAREAS V1CORTEXELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM
Fukuda, Keisuke、Woodman, Geoffrey F.、Wang, Sisi、Sutterer, David W.、Reinhart, Robert M. G.
NSTL
Springer Nature
