Figure 2.

Visual-motor working memory task reveals concurrent accessibility of visual representation and action plans for working-memory guided behaviour. (a) Visual-motor working memory task in which visual shape (orientation) information is linked to specific prospective manual actions (predictable reproduction report) after a memory delay. In this task, actions rely on detailed visual representations from memory. Item locations and prospective response hands (linked to orientation) are independently manipulated to enable independent tracking of visual and motor memory attributes in the EEG. (b) Empirical evidence (EEG decoding) from this task for concurrent selection of visual representations and their associated manual actions from working memory. This data suggest that multiple visual items in memory are held available for selection together with plans for the multiple potential actions they afford. Adapted from (van Ede et al., 2019b).