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The Rejection Template of Working Memory Operates after Attention Capture
Although scientists know that information stored in working memory guides visual attention, how this is accomplished is still under debate. Specifically, there is a dispute between the Biased Competition Model and Visual Attention Theory. The current study used two experiments to resolve this contro...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9687071/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36354413 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs12110436 |
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author | Lu, Jiachen Wang, Jing Li, Weidong Li, Jingjing |
author_facet | Lu, Jiachen Wang, Jing Li, Weidong Li, Jingjing |
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description | Although scientists know that information stored in working memory guides visual attention, how this is accomplished is still under debate. Specifically, there is a dispute between the Biased Competition Model and Visual Attention Theory. The current study used two experiments to resolve this controversy based on previous research. Experiment 1 found that although inverse efficiency scores for High and Low numbers of memory distractors were both longer than the Baseline (no memory distractors), they did not significantly differ from each other. This indicated that memory might guide attention via a capture-then-global-inhibition process. Experiment 2 addressed the possibility that the findings resulted from the time needed to reject the interfering objects by requiring both memory-matching and memory-mismatching conditions to be rejected under a highlighted target. This result showed that the memory-matching condition resulted in longer search times than the memory-mismatching condition, indicating an attention-capture effect based on working memory. Together, the two experiments support the idea that when multiple memory-matching distractors in a search array first capture an individual’s attention, it then acts as a template that allows the individual to suppress all interfering items that containing memory information holds. This study supports the Biased Competition Model early on in visual search. However, the late stage of visual search supports the Visual Attention Theory. These advance our knowledge regarding the relationship between working memory content and attention. |
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spelling | pubmed-96870712022-11-25 The Rejection Template of Working Memory Operates after Attention Capture Lu, Jiachen Wang, Jing Li, Weidong Li, Jingjing Behav Sci (Basel) Article Although scientists know that information stored in working memory guides visual attention, how this is accomplished is still under debate. Specifically, there is a dispute between the Biased Competition Model and Visual Attention Theory. The current study used two experiments to resolve this controversy based on previous research. Experiment 1 found that although inverse efficiency scores for High and Low numbers of memory distractors were both longer than the Baseline (no memory distractors), they did not significantly differ from each other. This indicated that memory might guide attention via a capture-then-global-inhibition process. Experiment 2 addressed the possibility that the findings resulted from the time needed to reject the interfering objects by requiring both memory-matching and memory-mismatching conditions to be rejected under a highlighted target. This result showed that the memory-matching condition resulted in longer search times than the memory-mismatching condition, indicating an attention-capture effect based on working memory. Together, the two experiments support the idea that when multiple memory-matching distractors in a search array first capture an individual’s attention, it then acts as a template that allows the individual to suppress all interfering items that containing memory information holds. This study supports the Biased Competition Model early on in visual search. However, the late stage of visual search supports the Visual Attention Theory. These advance our knowledge regarding the relationship between working memory content and attention. MDPI 2022-11-08 /pmc/articles/PMC9687071/ /pubmed/36354413 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs12110436 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Lu, Jiachen Wang, Jing Li, Weidong Li, Jingjing The Rejection Template of Working Memory Operates after Attention Capture |
title | The Rejection Template of Working Memory Operates after Attention Capture |
title_full | The Rejection Template of Working Memory Operates after Attention Capture |
title_fullStr | The Rejection Template of Working Memory Operates after Attention Capture |
title_full_unstemmed | The Rejection Template of Working Memory Operates after Attention Capture |
title_short | The Rejection Template of Working Memory Operates after Attention Capture |
title_sort | rejection template of working memory operates after attention capture |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9687071/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36354413 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs12110436 |
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