Mechanisms of Sensory Working Memory

Dr. Pierre Jolicoeur studies complex cognitive systems using EEG, MEG, NIRS, and fMRI. His primary focus is on fundamental mechanisms of attention and working memory in the visual, auditory, and tactile domains and how they mediate performance in single and dual-task situations. By leveraging the exceptional skills and knowledge of extraordinary collaborators, he examines these mechanisms in normal younger and older individuals, and in a number of special populations, including mild cognitive impairment and mild traumatic brain injury. Dr. Jolicoeur is a member of the Royal Society of Canada, and he is a full professor in the department of psychology at Université de Montréal where he holds the Canada Research Chair in experimental cognitive science. Dr. Martinez-Trujillo is an associate professor at the departments of Physiology and Pharmacology and Psychiatry and a scientist at the Robarts Research Institute, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada. He studied Medicine at the University of Havana, Cuba and continued pursuing his medical training in Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology at the Cuban Neuroscience Center. He continued his scientific training and obtained an MSc and PhD in Neurobiology at the Neurology Department of the University of Tübingen, Germany. He came to Canada in 2000 to pursue postdoctoral training at the Centre for Vision Research, York University, Toronto. In 2004 he became a Canada Research Chair and assistant professor at McGill University Department of Physiology in Montreal, Canada. In 2014 he joined Western University as associate professor and Western Research Chair in Autism. Dr. Martinez-Trujillo’s scientific work is dedicated to investigate the brain mechanisms underlying cognition, more specifically underlying the allocation of attention, and how these mechanisms fail during neurological and mental disease. His work has been published and acknowledged in prestigious scientific journal such as Nature, Nature Neuroscience, Neuron, Current Biology, amongst others.

• Chapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Sensational Memorability: Working Memory for Things We See, Hear, Feel, or Somehow SenseChapter 3. The Brain Mechanisms of Working Memory: An Evolving StoryChapter 4. The Contribution of Human Superior Intraparietal Sulcus to Visual Short-Term Memory and PerceptionChapter 5. Neural Bases of the Short-term Retention of Visual InformationChapter 6. What are the Roles of Sensory and Parietal Activity in Visual Short-Term Memory?Chapter 7. Hemispheric Organization of Visual Memory: Analyzing Visual Working Memory With Brain MeasuresChapter 8. Visual Working Memory and Attentional Object SelectionChapter 9. Individual Differences in Visual Working Memory Capacity: Contributions of Attentional Control to StorageChapter 10. Working Memory and Aging: A ReviewChapter 11. Defining a Role for Lateral Prefrontal Cortex in Memory-Guided Decisions About Visual MotionChapter 12. Working Memory Representations of Visual Motion along the Primate Dorsal Visual PathwayChapter 13. Neurophysiological Mechanisms of Working Memory: Cortical Specialization and PlasticityChapter 14. Neural and Behavioral Correlates of Auditory Short-Term and Recognition MemoryChapter 15. Brain Activity Related to the Retention of Tones in Auditory Short-Term MemoryChapter 16. The Interplay Between Auditory Attention and Working MemoryChapter 17. Neuroimaging of the Mind’s Ear Using Representational Similarity AnalysisChapter 18. Remembering Touch: Using Interference Tasks to Study Tactile and Haptic MemoryChapter 19. Human Cortical Representation of Tactile Short-Term Memory for Stimulation Patterns on the Hand: Evidence From MagnetoencephalographyChapter 20. The Role of Spatial Attention in Tactile Short-Term Memory