scholarly journals Motion-based Attention Underlies the Rehearsal of Biological Motion in Working Memory

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (12) ◽  
pp. 502
Author(s):  
Zaifeng Gao ◽  
Yangfan Zhao ◽  
Xiqian Lu ◽  
Mowei Shen ◽  
Feng Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Biological Motion

Emotional states affect the retention of biological motion in working memory.

Emotion ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (8) ◽  
pp. 1446-1461 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Guo ◽  
Wenmin Li ◽  
Xiqian Lu ◽  
Xiaodong Xu ◽  
Fangfang Qiu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Biological Motion ◽  
Emotional States

scholarly journals Load-sensitive impairment of working memory for biological motion in schizophrenia

PLoS ONE ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. e0186498
Author(s):  
Hannah Lee ◽  
Jejoong Kim
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Biological Motion

Holding biological motion information in working memory.

2014 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 1332-1345 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mowei Shen ◽  
Zaifeng Gao ◽  
Xiaowei Ding ◽  
Bing Zhou ◽  
Xiang Huang
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Biological Motion ◽  
Motion Information

scholarly journals Negative Affect Impairs the Working Memory Capacity of Biological Motion

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (12) ◽  
pp. 277
Author(s):  
Zaifeng Gao ◽  
Fangfang Qiu ◽  
Rende Shui ◽  
Shulin Chen ◽  
Mowei Shen
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Negative Affect ◽  
Biological Motion ◽  
Working Memory Capacity ◽  
Memory Capacity

Rehearsing Biological Motion in Working Memory: An EEG Study

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 198-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zaifeng Gao ◽  
Shlomo Bentin ◽  
Mowei Shen
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Negative Correlation ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Biological Motion ◽  
Memory Load ◽  
Mirror Neuron System ◽  
Mirror Neuron ◽  
Maintenance Phase ◽  
Neuron System ◽  
Mu Suppression

Holding biological motion (BM), the movements of animate entities, in working memory (WM) is important to our daily social life. However, how BM is maintained in WM remains unknown. The current study investigated this issue and hypothesized that, analogous to BM perception, the human mirror neuron system (MNS) is involved in rehearsing BM in WM. To examine the MNS hypothesis of BM rehearsal, we used an EEG index of mu suppression (8–12 Hz), which has been linked to the MNS. Using a change detection task, we manipulated the BM memory load in three experiments. We predicted that mu suppression in the maintenance phase of WM would be modulated by the BM memory load; moreover, a negative correlation between the number of BM stimuli in WM and the degree of mu suppression may emerge. The results of Experiment 1 were in line with our predictions and revealed that mu suppression increased as the memory load increased from two to four BM stimuli; however, mu suppression then plateaued, as WM could only hold, at most, four BM stimuli. Moreover, the predicted negative correlation was observed. Corroborating the findings of Experiment 1, Experiment 2 further demonstrated that once participants used verbal codes to process the motion information, the mu suppression or modulation by memory load vanished. Finally, Experiment 3 demonstrated that the findings in Experiment 1 were not limited to one specific type of stimuli. Together, these results provide evidence that the MNS underlies the process of rehearsing BM in WM.

scholarly journals Deficits in Working Memory and Theory of Mind May Underlie Difficulties in Social Perception of Children with ADHD

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Samane Imanipour ◽  
Mahmood Sheikh ◽  
Monir Shayestefar ◽  
Tourandokht Baloochnejad
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Theory Of Mind ◽  
Social Perception ◽  
Cognitive Abilities ◽  
Biological Motion ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Adhd Group ◽  
Noisy Environments ◽  
Children With Adhd ◽  
Hyperactivity Disorder

Children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are prone to peer rejection and disliking due to difficulties in social perception and interaction. To address social perception impairments in ADHD, we examined children with ADHD in a noisy biological motion (BM) direction discrimination paradigm in association with sociocognitive factors including emotion regulation, theory of mind (TOM), and working memory compared to healthy controls. Our results showed that children with ADHD were poorer in discriminating BM direction in noisy environments (F (1, 36) = 4.655, p = 0.038 ). Moreover, a significant correlation was found between working memory and TOM with BM discrimination in an ADHD group (r = 0.442, p = 0.01 , and r = 0.403, p = 0.05 , respectively). Our findings could suggest that social perception in noisy scenarios may be affected by memory and social cognitive abilities of children with ADHD.

Event-based encoding of biological motion and location in visual working memory

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (8) ◽  
pp. 1261-1277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Quan Gu ◽  
Xueyi Wan ◽  
Hong Ma ◽  
Xiqian Lu ◽  
Yang Guo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Visual Working Memory ◽  
Biological Motion ◽  
Irrelevant Dimension ◽  
Dynamic Environment ◽  
External World ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Target Dimension ◽  
Event Based ◽  
First Time

We make use of discrete yet meaningful events to orient ourselves to the dynamic environment. Among these events, biological motion, referring to the movements of animate entities, is one of the most biologically salient. We usually encounter biological motions of multiple human beings taking place simultaneously at distinct locations. How we encode biological motions into visual working memory (VWM) to form a coherent experience of the external world and guide our social behaviour remains unclear. This study for the first time addressed the VWM encoding mechanism of biological motions and their corresponding locations. We tested an event-based encoding hypothesis for biological motion and location: When one element of an event is required to be memorised, the irrelevant element of an event will also be extracted into VWM. We presented participants with three biological motions at different locations and required them to memorise only the biological motions or their locations while ignoring the other dimension. We examined the event-based encoding by probing a distracting effect: If the event-based encoding took place, the change of irrelevant dimension in the probe would lead to a significant distraction and impair the performance of detecting target dimension. We found significant distracting effects, which lasted for 3 s but vanished at 6 s, regardless of the target dimension (biological motions vs. locations, Experiment 1) and the exposure time of memory array (1 s vs. 3 s, Experiment 2). These results together support an event-based encoding mechanism during VWM encoding of biological motions and their corresponding locations.

Binding biological motion and visual features in working memory.

2015 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 850-865 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaowei Ding ◽  
Yangfan Zhao ◽  
Fan Wu ◽  
Xiqian Lu ◽  
Zaifeng Gao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Biological Motion ◽  
Visual Features

scholarly journals Agent Identity Drives Adaptive Encoding of Biological Motion into Working Memory

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (10) ◽  
pp. 703 ◽  
Author(s):  
Quan Gu ◽  
Zaifeng Gao ◽  
Xiaochi Ma ◽  
Xiqian Lu ◽  
Hui Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Biological Motion ◽  
Adaptive Encoding

Biological motion is stored independently from bound representation in working memory

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (9-10) ◽  
pp. 701-713 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Liu ◽  
Xiqian Lu ◽  
Fan Wu ◽  
Mowei Shen ◽  
Zaifeng Gao
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Biological Motion
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