Selected Publications
Where possible, links lead to open-access PDFs of published papers, and pre-prints of in-progress works. If those are not available, the link refers to the journal site and a link to the preprint, which does not necessarily match the final, accepted version, is provided. If you have trouble accessing a copy of a paper, please contact PI Tommy Sprague.
Preprints (not yet peer-reviewed)
Thayer, D.D. and Sprague, T.C. (pp2023). Interactions between working memory and attention depend on remembered feature dimension. psyArXiv. [ preprint ]
Vu-Cheung, K., Ester, E.F., and Sprague, T.C. (pp2021). Spatial working memory representations in human cortex are robust to a task-irrelevant interrupting stimulus. bioRxiv. [ preprint ]
Publications (peer-reviewed)
Thayer, D.D. and Sprague, T.C. (In press). Feature-specific salience maps in human cortex. Journal of Neuroscience. [ preprint | journal page <early release> ]
Li, Y. and Sprague, T.C. (2023). Awareness of the relative quality of spatial working memory representations. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. [ journal page | preprint | data | code ]
Thayer, D.D., Miller, M., Giesbrecht, B., and Sprague, T.C. (2022). Learned feature regularities enable suppression of spatially overlapping stimuli. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. [ journal page | preprint | data & code ]
Lin, S., Sprague, T.C., and Singh, A.K. (2022). Mind reader: reconstructing complex images from brain activities. Proceedings of the 36th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. [ conference paper ].
Lin, S., Sprague, T.C., and Singh, A.K. (2022). Redundancy and dependency in brain activities. Shared Visual Representations in Human and Machine Intelligence (NeurIPS Workshop). [ conference paper ].
Yoo, A.H., Bolaños, A., Hallenbeck, G.E., Rahmati, M., Sprague, T.C., and Curtis, C.E. (2022). Behavioral prioritization enhances working memory precision and neural population gain. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. [ journal page | preprint | data | code ]
*Li, H.-H., *Sprague, T.C., Yoo, A.H., +Ma, W.J., and +Curtis, C.E. (2021). Joint representation of working memory and uncertainty in human cortex. Neuron. (*equal contribution as lead authors; +equal contribution as senior authors) [ journal page | preprint | data & code ]
*Hallenbeck, G.E., *Sprague, T.C., Rahmati, M., Sreenivasan, K.K., and Curtis, C.E. (2021). Working memory representations in visual cortex mediate distraction effects. Nature Communications. (*equal contribution) [ journal page | preprint | data | code ]
Vo, V.A., Sutterer, D.W., Foster, J.J., Sprague, T.C., Awh, E., and Serences, J.T. (2021). Shared representational formats for information maintained in working memory and information retrieved from long-term memory. Cerebral Cortex. [ journal page | preprint ]
Ester, E.F., Sprague, T.C., and Serences, J.T. (2020). Categorical biases in human occipitoparietal cortex. Journal of Neuroscience. [ journal page | preprint | data & code | commentary ]
Sprague, T.C., Boynton, G.M., and Serences, J.T. (2019). Inverted encoding models estimate sensible channel responses for sensible models. Commentary on "Inverted Encoding Models Reconstruct an Arbitrary Model Response, not the Stimulus" by Gardner & Liu, 2019. eNeuro. [ journal page | pdf | simulation code ]
*Itthipuripat, S., *Vo, V.A., Sprague, T.C., and Serences, J.T. (2019). Value-driven attentional capture enhances distractor representations in early visual cortex. PLoS Biology (*equal contribution) [ journal page | data & code ]
*Itthipuripat, S., *Sprague, T.C., and Serences, J.T. (2019). Functional MRI and EEG index complementary attentional modulations. Journal of Neuroscience (*equal contribution) [ journal page | preprint | data & code ]
*Henderson, M., *Vo, V.A., Chunharas, C., Sprague, T.C., and Serences, J.T. (2019). Multivariate analysis of BOLD activation patterns recovers graded depth representations in human visual and parietal cortex. (*equal contribution). eNeuro. [ journal site | data | code ]
Chunharas, C., Rademaker, R.L., Sprague, T.C., Brady, T.F., and Serences, J.T. (2019). Separating memoranda in depth increases visual working memory performance. Journal of Vision. [ journal page | data & code ]
Sprague, T.C., *Adam, K.C.S., *Foster, J.J., *Rahmati, M., *Sutterer, D.W., and *Vo, V.A. (2018). Inverted encoding models assay population-level stimulus representations, not single-unit neural tuning. Peer-reviewed commentary on “Inverted encoding models of human population response conflate noise and neural tuning width” by Liu, Cable & Gardner, 2018 (*equal contribution, listed alphabetically). eNeuro. [ pdf ]
Sprague, T.C., Itthipuripat, S., Vo, V.A., and Serences, J.T. (2018). Dissociable signatures of visual salience and behavioral relevance across attentional priority maps in human cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology. [ preprint | journal page | data | code ]
Vo, VA., Sprague, T.C., and Serences, J.T. (2017). Spatial tuning shifts increase the discriminability and fidelity of population codes in visual cortex. Journal of Neuroscience. [ pdf | data & code ]
Sprague, T.C., Ester, E.F., and Serences, J.T. (2016). Restoring latent visual working memory representations in human cortex. Neuron. [ pdf | data | code ]
*Ester, E.F., *Rademaker, R.L. and *Sprague, T.C. (2016). How do visual and parietal cortex contribute to visual short-term memory? Peer-reviewed commentary on “Decoding the content of visual short-term memory under distraction in occipital and parietal areas” by Bettencourt & Xu, 2016 (*equal contribution, listed alphabetically). eNeuro. [ pdf ]
Samaha, J., Sprague, T.C., and Postle, B.R. (2016). Decoding and reconstructing the focus of spatial attention from the topography of alpha-band oscillations. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. [ journal site | pdf ]
Ester, E.F., Sprague, T.C., and Serences, J.T. (2015). Parietal and frontal cortex encode stimulus-specific mnemonic representations during visual working memory. Neuron. [ pdf ]
Sprague, T.C., Ester, E.F. and Serences, J.T. (2014). Reconstructions of information in visual spatial working memory degrade with memory load. Current Biology. [ pdf ]
Itthipuripat S., Garcia, J.O., Rungratsameetaweemana, N. Sprague, T.C., Serences, J.T. (2014). Changing the spatial scope of attention alters the pattern of neural gain in human cortex. Journal of Neuroscience. [ pdf ]
Sprague, T.C. and Serences, J.T. (2013). Attention modulates spatial priority maps in human occipital, parietal and frontal cortices. Nature Neuroscience. [ pdf | supplementary materials ]
Reviews / Book chapters
Curtis, C.E. and Sprague, T.C. (2021). Persistent activity during working memory from front to back. Frontiers in Neural Circuits. [ journal page ]
Sprague, T.C., Saproo, S. and Serences, J.T. (2015). Attention mitigates information loss in small- and large-scale neural codes. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. [ tutorials & sample data ]
Sprague, T.C. and Serences, J.T. (2015). Using human neuroimaging to examine top-down modulations of visual perception. An Introduction to Model-based Cognitive Neuroscience, eds. Birte Forstmann & E-J Wagenmakers.
Manuscripts in Progress
Sprague, T.C. and Curtis, C.E. (In preparation). Temporal dynamics of visual working memory representations across human cortex.
