scholarly journals The Role of Working Memory in Visual Selective Attention

Science ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 291 (5509) ◽  
pp. 1803-1806 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. W. de Fockert
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Selective Attention ◽  
Visual Selective Attention

scholarly journals The effect of visual salience on memory-based choices

2014 ◽  
Vol 111 (3) ◽  
pp. 481-487 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arezoo Pooresmaeili ◽  
Dominik R. Bach ◽  
Raymond J. Dolan
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Sensory Information ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Visual Selective Attention ◽  
Visual Salience ◽  
Perceptual Decision Making ◽  
Capacity Limitations ◽  
Course Of Action ◽  
Task Irrelevant

Deciding whether a stimulus is the “same” or “different” from a previous presented one involves integrating among the incoming sensory information, working memory, and perceptual decision making. Visual selective attention plays a crucial role in selecting the relevant information that informs a subsequent course of action. Previous studies have mainly investigated the role of visual attention during the encoding phase of working memory tasks. In this study, we investigate whether manipulation of bottom-up attention by changing stimulus visual salience impacts on later stages of memory-based decisions. In two experiments, we asked subjects to identify whether a stimulus had either the same or a different feature to that of a memorized sample. We manipulated visual salience of the test stimuli by varying a task-irrelevant feature contrast. Subjects chose a visually salient item more often when they looked for matching features and less often so when they looked for a nonmatch. This pattern of results indicates that salient items are more likely to be identified as a match. We interpret the findings in terms of capacity limitations at a comparison stage where a visually salient item is more likely to exhaust resources leading it to be prematurely parsed as a match.

scholarly journals The Role of Working Memory in Selective Attention

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (12) ◽  
pp. 671
Author(s):  
Melissa Trevino ◽  
Bruno Breitmeyer ◽  
Jane Jacob
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Selective Attention

Differential effects of amitriptyline, nefazodone and paroxetine on performance and brain indices of visual selective attention and working memory

2002 ◽  
Vol 162 (4) ◽  
pp. 351-363 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. van Laar ◽  
E. Volkerts ◽  
M. Verbaten ◽  
S. Trooster ◽  
H. van Megen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Selective Attention ◽  
Visual Selective Attention ◽  
Differential Effects
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