4/4 Thanks to our reviewers, the accepted manuscript now includes a more comprehensive discussion and additional insights.

This has been a very exciting journey, and I’m truly grateful for the support of my PI, Daniel Schneider, and our collaborator, @erengunseli.bsky.social, on this project!

3/4 Our new analyses reveal that this facilitates a bias in WM toward interference (rather than a swap of the target with the interference). And when this happens, we observe a control mechanism at work, evident in frontal theta activity, that mitigates further disruption of WM from this process.

2/4 Our main results provide novel evidence for selective WM gating that depends on motor control. We show that when the main task and the interfering task share motor components, visual WM interacts more strongly with distracting perceptual information.