Reaffirming the Sensory Recruitment Account of Working Memory.

of visual information that was initially processed in the conventional visual system. Sensory recruitment, by contrast, provides a parsimonious model of VWM storage, as it decreases redundancy in cortical processing. Imaging studies provide ample support for a shared neural substrate for visual representations of retinal and mnemonic origin, while behavioral studies provide ample support for (either beneficial or detrimental) interactions between VWM content and the processing of concurrent visual input. Based on the current evidence, we should therefore be reluctant to revise the traditional view that VWM recruits sensory processing areas for maintaining visual information available after termination of its sensory input.