The role of the pulvinar in resolving competition between memory and visual selection: A functional connectivity study

► The pulvinar respond to the matching of working memory content and the goal of a selection task. ► The above effect is observed in three separate experiments. ► When memory content distracts selection, the pulvinar increase projections to SFG, TPJ and visual cortex. ► The projection strength from pulvinar-to-visual correlates with working memory performances.