Task-irrelevant features in visual working memory influence covert attention: Evidence from a partial report task

Foerster, Rebecca M.; Schneider, Werner X.

Task-irrelevant features in visual working memory influence covert attention: Evidence from a partial report task

Foerster RM, Schneider WX (2019)
Vision 3(3): 42.

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https://doi.org/10.3390/vision3030042

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urn:nbn:de:0070-pub-29370690

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Foerster, Rebecca M.^UniBi ; Schneider, Werner X.^UniBi

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Center of Excellence - Cognitive Interaction Technology CITEC
Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung
Fakultät für Psychologie und Sportwissenschaft > Abteilung für Psychologie > Arbeitseinheit 01 - Neurokognitive Psychologie

Abstract / Bemerkung

Selecting a target based on a representation in visual working memory (VWM) affords biasing covert attention towards objects with memory-matching features. Recently, we showed that even task-irrelevant features of a VWM template bias attention. Specifically, when participants had to saccade to a cued shape, distractors sharing the cue’s search-irrelevant color captured the eyes. While a saccade always aims at one target location, multiple locations can be attended covertly. Here, we investigated whether covert attention is captured similarly as the eyes. In our partial report task, each trial started with a shape-defined search cue, followed by a fixation cross. Next, two colored shapes, each including a letter, appeared left and right from fixation, followed by masks. The letter inside that shape matching the preceding cue had to be reported. In Experiment 1, either target, distractor, both, or no object matched the cue’s irrelevant color. Target-letter reports were most frequent in target-match trials and least frequent in distractor-match trials. Irrelevant cue and target color never matched in Experiment 2. Still, participants reported the distractor more often to the target’s disadvantage, when cue and distractor color matched. Thus, irrelevant features of a VWM template can influence covert attention in an involuntarily object-based manner when searching for trial-wise varying targets.

Stichworte

covert attention; template; attentional capture; visual working memory; involuntary top-down control

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Zeitschriftentitel

Vision

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Art.-Nr.

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2411-5150

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https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/record/2937069

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Foerster RM, Schneider WX. Task-irrelevant features in visual working memory influence covert attention: Evidence from a partial report task. Vision. 2019;3(3): 42.

Foerster, R. M., & Schneider, W. X. (2019). Task-irrelevant features in visual working memory influence covert attention: Evidence from a partial report task. Vision, 3(3), 42. doi:10.3390/vision3030042

Foerster, Rebecca M., and Schneider, Werner X. 2019. “Task-irrelevant features in visual working memory influence covert attention: Evidence from a partial report task”. Vision 3 (3): 42.

Foerster, R. M., and Schneider, W. X. (2019). Task-irrelevant features in visual working memory influence covert attention: Evidence from a partial report task. Vision 3:42.

Foerster, R.M., & Schneider, W.X., 2019. Task-irrelevant features in visual working memory influence covert attention: Evidence from a partial report task. Vision, 3(3): 42.

R.M. Foerster and W.X. Schneider, “Task-irrelevant features in visual working memory influence covert attention: Evidence from a partial report task”, Vision, vol. 3, 2019, : 42.

Foerster, R.M., Schneider, W.X.: Task-irrelevant features in visual working memory influence covert attention: Evidence from a partial report task. Vision. 3, : 42 (2019).

Foerster, Rebecca M., and Schneider, Werner X. “Task-irrelevant features in visual working memory influence covert attention: Evidence from a partial report task”. Vision 3.3 (2019): 42.

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