What drives memory-based attentional capture? An investigation on category-based working memory guidance of visual attention

Previous neurophysiological and behavioural studies have shown that attention can be guided by the contents of working memory (WM), and that such guidance can be involuntary even when it is detrimental to the task at hand. In three experiments, this thesis investigated whether the guidance of visual...

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Main Author: Wang, Grace Xiaoni
Language:en
Published: University of Canterbury. Psychology 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10092/8958