ABSTRACT

Chota, S., & Van der Stigchel, S. (2021). Dynamic and flexible transformation and reallocation of visual working memory representations (this issue); Iamshchinina, P., Christophel, T. B., Gayet, S., & Rademaker, R. L. (2021). Essential considerations for exploring visual working memory storage in the human brain (this issue); Lorenc, E. S., & Sreenivasa, K. K. (2021). Reframing the debate: the distributed systems view of working memory (this issue); and Teng, C., & Postle, B. R. (2021). Understanding occipital and parietal contributions to visual working memory: Commentary to Xu (2020) (this issue) each present a commentary regarding Xu, Y. (2020). Revisit once more the sensory storage account of visual working memory. Visual Cognition, 28(5-8), 433–446. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2020.1818659 where I conclude that sensory regions are nonessential for the storage of information in visual working memory (VWM). They argue instead that sensory regions are critical to VWM storage. Here I briefly reiterate some of the key evidence against this account, some of which has not been accounted by the four commentaries. I also provide a detailed reanalysis of why the main evidence supporting this account may be problematic. Collectively, existence evidence from human neuroimaging and TMS studies and that from monkey neurophysiology studies does not provide strong support for the sensory storage account of VWM. To form an accurate understanding of the distinctive role each brain region may play in perception and VWM as well as how they may interact to collectively support a VWM task, it is important that we properly survey and evaluate all the available evidence.

摘要

Chota, S. 和 Van der Stigchel, S. (2021)。视觉工作记忆表征的动态和灵活转换和重新分配（本期）；Iamshchinina, P., Christophel, TB, Gayet, S. 和 Rademaker, RL (2021)。探索人脑中视觉工作记忆存储的基本考虑因素（本期）；Lorenc, ES 和 Sreenivasa, KK (2021)。重构辩论：工作记忆的分布式系统观点（本期）；和 Teng, C. 和 Postle, BR (2021)。了解枕叶和顶叶对视觉工作记忆的贡献：对 Xu (2020) 的评论（本期）每篇都对 Xu, Y. (2020) 发表评论。再次重温视觉工作记忆的感官存储帐户。视觉认知, 28(5-8), 433–446。https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2020.1818659 我的结论是感觉区域对于视觉工作记忆 (VWM) 中的信息存储不是必需的。相反，他们认为感觉区域对 VWM 存储至关重要。在这里，我简要地重申一些反对这种说法的关键证据，其中一些没有被四评注解释。我还详细重新分析了为什么支持这一说法的主要证据可能存在问题。总的来说，来自人类神经影像学和 TMS 研究的存在证据以及来自猴子神经生理学研究的存在证据并没有为 VWM 的感觉存储帐户提供强有力的支持。为了准确理解每个大脑区域在感知和 VWM 中可能发挥的独特作用，以及它们如何相互作用以共同支持 VWM 任务，