Preparing memories for action: how visual working memories are sculpted by their anticipated use

Project Information

MEMTICIPATION

Grant agreement ID: 850636

DOI

10.3030/850636

EC signature date 18 November 2019

Start date 1 September 2020

End date 28 February 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 499 746,00

EU contribution

€ 1 499 746,00

Coordinated by

STICHTING VU
Netherlands

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (32)

Microsaccades track location-based object rehearsal in visual working memory

Author(s): Eelke de Vries, Freek van Ede
Published in: eNeuro, 2024, ISSN 2373-2822
Publisher: Society for Neuroscience
DOI: 10.1101/2023.03.21.533618

Microsaccades reveal preserved spatial organisation in visual working memory despite decay in location-based rehearsal

Author(s): Eelke de Vries, Freek van Ede
Published in: Cognition, Issue 259, 2025, Page(s) 106111, ISSN 0010-0277
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106111

Looking ahead in working memory to guide sequential behaviour

Author(s): van Ede F, Deden J, Nobre AC
Published in: Current Biology, 2021, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.04.063

Shifting attention between perception and working memory

Author(s): Daniela Gresch, Sage E.P. Boettcher, Freek van Ede, Anna C. Nobre
Published in: Cognition, Issue 245, 2025, Page(s) 105731, ISSN 0010-0277
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105731

Consequences of predictable temporal structure in multi-task situations

Author(s): Gresch D, Boettcher SEP, Nobre AC, van Ede F
Published in: Cognition, 2022, ISSN 0010-0277
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105156

Planning the potential future during multi-item visual working memory

Author(s): Nasrawi R, van Ede F
Published in: Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2022, ISSN 0898-929X
Publisher: Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_01875

About time: modelling dynamic voluntary attention

Author(s): Shalev N, van Ede F
Published in: Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2021, ISSN 1364-6613
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2021.07.010

No obligatory trade-off between the use of space and time for working memory

Author(s): Eelke de Vries, George Fejer, Freek van Ede
Published in: Communications Psychology, Issue 1, 2023, ISSN 2731-9121
Publisher: Springer-Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s44271-023-00042-9

Toward a neurobiology of internal selective attention

Author(s): van Ede F, Nobre AC
Published in: Trends in Neurosciences, 2021, ISSN 0166-2236
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2021.04.010

Transient beta activity and cortico-muscular connectivity during sustained motor behaviour

Author(s): Echeverria-Altuna I, Quinn AJ, Zokaei N, Woolrich MW, Nobre AC, van Ede F.
Published in: Progress in Neurobiology, 2022, ISSN 0301-0082
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2022.102281

Multiple and dissociable effects of sensory history on working-memory performance

Author(s): Hajonides, J, van Ede F, Stokes MG, Nobre AC, Myers NE
Published in: Journal of Neuroscience, 2023, ISSN 0270-6474
Publisher: Society for Neuroscience
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.1200-22.2023

Attentional shifts bias microsaccade direction but do not cause new microsaccades

Author(s): Baiwei Liu, Zampeta-Sofia Alexopoulou, Freek van Ede
Published in: Communications Psychology, Issue 2, 2024, ISSN 2731-9121
Publisher: Spring-Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s44271-024-00149-7

Decoding visual colour from scalp electroencephalography measurements

Author(s): Hajonides JE, Nobre AC, van Ede F*, Stokes MG*
Published in: NeuroImage, 2021, ISSN 1053-8119
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118030

Memory load influences our preparedness to act on visual representations in working memory without affecting their accessibility

Author(s): Rose Nasrawi, Mika Mautner-Rohde, Freek van Ede
Published in: Progress in Neurobiology, Issue 245, 2025, Page(s) 102717, ISSN 0301-0082
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2025.102717

Functional but not obligatory link between microsaccades and neural modulation by covert spatial attention

Author(s): Liu B, Nobre AC, van Ede F
Published in: Nature Communications, 2022, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-31217-3

Alpha Oscillations Track Content-Specific Working Memory Capacity

Author(s): Ya-Ting Chen, Freek van Ede, Bo-Cheng Kuo
Published in: The Journal of Neuroscience, Issue 42, 2022, Page(s) 7285-7293, ISSN 0270-6474
Publisher: Society for Neuroscience
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.2296-21.2022

Functional biases in attentional templates from associative memory

Author(s): Boettcher SEP, van Ede F, Nobre AC
Published in: Journal of Vision, 2020, ISSN 1534-7362
Publisher: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
DOI: 10.1167/jov.20.13.7

Jointly looking to the past and the future in visual working memory

Author(s): Baiwei Liu, Zampeta-Sofia Alexopoulou, Freek van Ede
Published in: eLife, 2024, ISSN 2050-084X
Publisher: eLife Sciences Publications
DOI: 10.7554/elife.90874.2

Heading direction tracks internally directed selective attention in visual working memory

Author(s): Thom JL, Nobre AC, van Ede F, Draschkow D
Published in: Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2023, ISSN 0898-929X
Publisher: Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_01976

Rhythmic modulation of visual perception by continuous rhythmic auditory stimulation

Author(s): Bauer AKR, van Ede F, Quinn AJ, Nobre AC
Published in: The Journal of Neuroscience, 2021, ISSN 0270-6474
Publisher: Society for Neuroscience
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.2980-20.2021

A Neural Decision Signal during Internal Sampling from Working Memory in Humans

Author(s): Freek van Ede, Anna C. Nobre
Published in: The Journal of Neuroscience, Issue 44, 2024, Page(s) e1475232024, ISSN 0270-6474
Publisher: Society for Neuroscience
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.1475-23.2024

Microsaccades transiently lateralise EEG alpha activity

Author(s): Liu B, Nobre AC, van Ede F
Published in: Progress Neurobiology, 2023, ISSN 0301-0082
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2023.102433

Output planning at the input stage in visual working memory

Author(s): Boettcher SEP, Gresch D, Nobre AC, van Ede F
Published in: Science Advances, 2021, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: AAAS
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abe8212

Attention in Flux

Author(s): van Ede F, Nobre AC
Published in: Neuron, 2023, ISSN 0896-6273
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2023.02.032

Re-focusing visual working memory during expected and unexpected memory tests

Author(s): Sisi Wang, Freek van Ede
Published in: eLife, 2024, ISSN 2050-084X
Publisher: eLife Sciences Publications
DOI: 10.7554/elife.100532.1

Shielding working-memory representations from temporally predictable external interference

Author(s): Gresch D, Boettcher SEP, van Ede F*, Nobre AC*
Published in: Cognition, 2021, ISSN 0010-0277
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104915

Neural signatures of competition between voluntary and involuntary influences over the focus of attention in visual working memory

Author(s): Yun Ding, Bradley R. Postle, Freek van Ede
Published in: Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2024, ISSN 1530-8898
Publisher: MIT press
DOI: 10.1101/2023.10.05.561134

Capacity and selection in immersive visual working memory following naturalistic object disappearance

Author(s): Chawoush B, Draschkow D, van Ede F
Published in: Journal of Vision, 2023, ISSN 1534-7362
Publisher: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
DOI: 10.1167/jov.23.8.9

Multiple spatial frames for immersive working memory

Author(s): Draschkow D, Nobre AC, van Ede F
Published in: Nature Human Behaviour, 2022, ISSN 2397-3374
Publisher: Springer Nature Publishing
DOI: 10.1038/s41562-021-01245-y

Turning attention inside out: how working memory serves behavior

Author(s): van Ede F Nobre AC
Published in: Annual Review of Psychology, 2023, ISSN 0066-4308
Publisher: Annual Reviews, Inc.
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-psych-021422-041757

Neural dynamics of shifting attention between perception and working-memory contents

Author(s): Daniela Gresch, Sage E.P. Boettcher, Chetan Gohil, Freek van Ede, Anna C. Nobre
Published in: PNAS, 2024, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1101/2024.02.14.580280

Prospection of Potential Actions during Visual Working Memory Starts Early, Is Flexible, and Predicts Behavior

Author(s): Rose Nasrawi, Sage E. P. Boettcher, Freek van Ede
Published in: The Journal of Neuroscience, Issue 43, 2023, Page(s) 8515-8524, ISSN 0270-6474
Publisher: Society for Neuroscience
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.0709-23.2023

Non-peer reviewed articles (2)

Do microsaccades track shifting but not sustaining covert attention?

Author(s): van Ede F
Published in: PNAS, 2023, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2309431120

High-level visual cognition deep down in the brain

Author(s): Baiwei Liu, Freek van Ede
Published in: Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Issue 28, 2024, Page(s) 1057-1058, ISSN 1364-6613
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2024.10.010