In this work we answered on a series of questions regarding the influence of emotions on spatial working memory: firstly, whether emotionally salient stimuli affect spatial working memory and how, secondly, whether negative influences occur only when emotional stimuli are included in the task as irrelevant distracting stimuli, and lastly, whether the negative influence of emotional stimuli is either reduced or reversed when emotional content bears important information for the task. We also verified the consistency of the observed effects of emotions with the assumptions of computational models of spatial working memory, and how manipulations of their role and relevance in the task influence changes in brain activation.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 59763810In this dissertation we were investigating the electrophysiological correlates of temporal order coding in visual working memory and how these correlates are different from ones coding only visual objects. Beside EEG correlates, behavioral results (reaction times and accuracy) were also collected, therefore we additionally researched which cognitive mechanism could explain coding of temporal order in visual working memory and how this mechanism is different from the one in verbal working memory.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 59941730The study of fuctional connectivity offers an important tool in the study of cognitive functions and abilities as well as mechanisms of their dysfunction in psychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases. The studies of functional connectivity enable identification of brain networks and their integration in complex cognitive processes, among them during maintenance of information in working memory and appropriate filtering of irrelevant distractors. The invited lecture was given at Centre for Cognitive and Neural Systems, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK, 25th of October 2016.
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