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Kiyonaga Lab at UCSD

Our Papers

preprints and under review

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Yang, S., Dong, Y., & Kiyonaga, A. (2025, preprint). Flexible Working Memory in the Peripheral Nervous System. bioRxiv.

Dong, Y., Hung, Y., Gaspariani, L., & Kiyonaga, A. (2025, preprint). Flexible gaze reinstatement during working memory for natural scenes. bioRxiv.

Chkhaidze A, Reeder RR, Gag C, Kiyonaga A & Coulson S (2025, preprint). Beyond vividness: Content analysis of induced hallucinations reveals the hidden structure of individual differences in visual imagery. arXiv.

Kiyonaga A, Miller JA & D’Esposito M. (2024, preprint) Lateral prefrontal cortex controls interplay between working memory and actions. bioRxiv.

Tambini, A., Miller, J., Ehlert, L., Kiyonaga, A., & D’Esposito, M. (2023, preprint). Structured memory representations develop at multiple time scales in hippocampal-cortical networks. bioRxiv.

Kiyonaga A, Scimeca JM, & D’Esposito M (accepted in principle). Dissociating the causal roles of frontal and parietal cortex in working memory capacity. Nature Human Behaviour.

publications

Kiyonaga A & Serences JT (in press). Sensory reformatting for a working visual memory. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. [pdf]

Ying Z, Callaway F, Fox R, Kiyonaga A & Mattar MG (2025). A Variational Neural Network Model of Resource-Rational Reward Encoding in Human Planning. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 47).

Chkhaidze, A., Kiyonaga, A., Coulson, S., & Reeder, R. R. (2025). Visual Imagery Vividness Predicts the Complexity of Induced Hallucinations. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 47).

Adam K, Klatt LI, Miller J, Rösner M, Fukuda K, & Kiyonaga A (2025) Beyond routine maintenance: Current trends in working memory research. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 37(6), 1035-1052.

Yang S, Kiyonaga A (2024). Serial Dependence: Connecting past and present. eLife 13:e101212.

Dong, Y., & Kiyonaga, A. (2024). Ocular working memory signals are flexible to behavioral priority and subjective imagery strength. Journal of Neurophysiology, 132, 162-176.

Ying, Z., Callaway, F., Kiyonaga, A., & Mattar, M. G. (2024). Resource-Rational Encoding of Reward Information in Planning. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 46).

Chkhaidze, A., Coulson, S., & Kiyonaga, A. (2023). Individual Differences in Preferred Thought Formats Predict Features of Narrative Recall. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 45).

Miller, J. A., Tambini, A., Kiyonaga, A., & D’Esposito, M. (2022). Long-term learning transforms prefrontal cortex representations during working memory. Neuron, 110, 3805-3819.

Kiyonaga A, Powers J, Chiu YC, & Egner T (2021). Hemisphere-specific parietal contributions to the interplay between working memory and attention. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 33, 1428–1441.

Miller JA, Kiyonaga A, Ivry RB, & D’Esposito M (2020). Prioritized verbal working memory content biases ongoing action. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 46, 1443–1457.

Kiyonaga A & D’Esposito M (2020). Competition and control during working memory. In James T. Enns and M. M. Chun (eds.), Elements of Perception. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Kiyonaga A & Scimeca JM (2019). Practical considerations for navigating Registered Reports. Trends in Neurosciences, 42, 568-572.

Kiyonaga A (2019). We need a taxonomy of working memory. Journal of Cognition. 2(1), 35

Scimeca JM, Kiyonaga A, & D’Esposito M (2018). Reaffirming the sensory recruitment account of working memory. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 22, 190-192

Kiyonaga A, Dowd EW, & Egner T (2017). Neural representation of working memory content is modulated by visual attentional demand. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 29, 2011-2024.

Kiyonaga A, Scimeca JM, Bliss DP, & Whitney D (2017). Serial dependence across perception, attention, and memory. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 21, 493-497.

Kiyonaga A & Egner T (2016). Center-surround inhibition in working memory. Current Biology, 26, 64-68.

Coutlee, CG, Kiyonaga A, Korb FM, Huettel, SA, & Egner T (2016). Reduced risk-taking following disruption of the intraparietal sulcus. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 10, 588

Dowd EW, Kiyonaga A, Beck J, & Egner T (2015). Quality and accessibility of visual working memory during cognitive control of attentional guidance: A Bayesian model comparison approach. Visual Cognition, 23, 337- 356

Dowd EW, Kiyonaga A, Egner T, & Mitroff S. (2015). Attentional guidance by working memory differs by paradigm: An individual-differences approach. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 77, 704-712

Kiyonaga A & Egner T (2014). The working memory Stroop effect: When internal representations clash with external stimuli. Psychological Science, 25, 1619-1629

Kiyonaga A, Korb F, Lucas J, Soto D, & Egner T (2014). Dissociable causal roles for left and right parietal cortex in controlling attentional biases from working memory. NeuroImage, 100, 200-205

Kiyonaga A & Egner T (2014). Resource-sharing between internal maintenance and external selection modulates attentional capture by working memory content. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, 670

Kiyonaga A, & Egner T (2013). Working memory as internal attention: Toward an integrative account of internal and external selection processes. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 20, 228-242

Soto D, Greene C, Kiyonaga A, Rosenthal C, & Egner T (2012). A parieto-medial temporal pathway for the strategic control over working memory biases in human visual attention. Journal of Neuroscience, 32, 17563-17571.

Kiyonaga A, Egner T, & Soto D (2012). Cognitive control over working memory biases of selection. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 19, 639-646.

Stanley EA, Kiyonaga A, Schaldach JM, & Jha AP (2011) Mindfulness-based mind fitness: A case study of a high stress pre-deployment military cohort. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 18, 566-576.

Baijal S, Jha AP, Kiyonaga A, Singh R & Srinivasan N (2011). The Influence of Concentrative Meditation Training on the Development of Attention Networks during Early Adolescence. Frontiers in Psychology, 2, 153.

Jha AP, Stanley EA, Kiyonaga A, Wong LM, & Gelfand L (2010). Examining the protective effects of mindfulness training on working memory capacity and affective experience. Emotion, 10, 54-64.

Jha AP & Kiyonaga A (2010). Working memory-triggered dynamic adjustments in cognitive control. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 36, 1036-1042.

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