Quantifying the attentional impact of working memory matching targets and distractors

Various theoretical proposals have been put forward to explain how memory representations control attention during visual search. In this study, we use the first saccade on each trial as a way to quantify the attentional impact of multiple types of representations held in working memory. Across two...

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Main Authors: Carlisle, N.B (Author), Woodman, G.F (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Routledge 2019
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520 3 |a Various theoretical proposals have been put forward to explain how memory representations control attention during visual search. In this study, we use the first saccade on each trial as a way to quantify the attentional impact of multiple types of representations held in working memory. Across two experiments, we found that a search target maintained in working memory was attended over 20 times more frequently than a non-memory-matching distractor. In addition, an item matching an additional object represented in working memory was attended 2 times more frequently than a non-memory matching distractor. These findings show that there is a measurable attentional impact of items maintained in working memory for a future task, however, such representations have a much weaker attentional impact than working memory representations of search targets. © 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. 
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