Attended and unattended working memory items are represented via opposite neural patterns

Two recent pre-prints suggest that attended and unattended working memory items are represented via opposite neural patterns (i.e. anti-correlated, reversed).

by Anouk van Loon, Johannes Fahrenfort, and Chris Olivers

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/06/04/337964

by Qing Yu and Brad Postle

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/05/30/334920