(3/3) (where illusion occurs despite impaired feedback). If this attention has to act on a non-physically present stimulus (internal attention), such as imagined location or object, then aphantasia may fail due to the lack of supportive sensory signals in the visual cortex.

(2/3) If you meant external attention, like attending to a spatial location, a visual object, etc, then the sensory stimulation from the location or object in the visual cortex may help to sustain attention at this specific location or object, just like what we observed in our illusion task

(1/3) This is a great question. A simple answer I have is it depends on how we define "attention."

Hi Nadine, thank you very much for reposting. Please let us know if you have any comments on this work!

Now out at @elife.bsky.social, a short Insight article I wrote highlighting this cool paper from Qing Yu's lab! They show how working memory representations in human frontal cortex are flexible based on task goals and rules. (elifesciences.org/articles/100..., elifesciences.org/articles/106...)

The representation of abstract goals in working memory is supported by task-congruent neural geometry Successful goal-directed behavior requires that abstract task goals are maintained and implemented in working memory - how does this occur? This neuroimaging study shows that the frontal cortex mainta...

🧠 Thrilled to share our latest study, now published in PLOS Biology! 🌟

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

In this work, conducted by me and Dr. Qing Yu at the Institute of Neuroscience, we uncovered how the brain encodes and implements abstract task information (such as goals) in working memory.

🍾🥳 Proud to share our new paper published on eLife 📄: elifesciences.org/articles/100...

Accompanied by an insight piece by @neurojacob.bsky.social 📄: elifesciences.org/articles/106...

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