Decoding the content of visual short-term memory under distraction in occipital and parietal areas

Using fMRI multi-voxel pattern decoding, human superior IPS, but not occipital cortex, was found to closely track behavioral measures of information storage in visual short-term memory (VSTM) across distractor presence and predictability. This suggests that superior IPS, and not occipital cortex, has a central role in VSTM storage in the human brain.