The state of memory-matched distractor in working memory influence the visual attention.
Information in working memory (WM) can guide visual attention towards matched features. While recent work has suggested that cognitive control can act upon WM guidance of visual attention, little is known about how the state of memorized items retaining in WM contribute to its influence over attenti...
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| author | Quanshan Long Ting Luo Sheng Zhang Yuanling Jiang Na Hu Yan Gu Peng Xu Antao Chen |
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| description | Information in working memory (WM) can guide visual attention towards matched features. While recent work has suggested that cognitive control can act upon WM guidance of visual attention, little is known about how the state of memorized items retaining in WM contribute to its influence over attention. Here, we disentangle the role of inhibition and maintenance on WM-guided attention with a novel delayed match-to-sample dual-task. The results showed that active inhibition facilitated searching by diminishing sensory processing and deterring attentional guidance, indexed by an attenuated P1 amplitude and unaffected N2pc amplitude, respectively. By contrast, active maintenance impaired searching by attentional guidance while sensory processing remained unimpaired, indexed by an enhanced N2pc amplitude and unchanged P1 amplitude, respectively. Furthermore, multivariate pattern analyses could sucessfully decode maintenance and inhibition, suggesting that two states differed in modulating visual attention. We propose that remembered contents may play an anchoring role for attentional guidance, and the state of those contents retaining in WM may directly influence the shifting of attention. The maintenance could guide attention by accessing input information, while the inhibition could deter the shifting of attention by suppressing sensory processing. These findings provide a possible reinterpretation of the influence of WM on attention. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c139c64f294841a7bf0cf40bc4824d842022-12-21T19:58:44ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032020-01-011512e024272110.1371/journal.pone.0242721The state of memory-matched distractor in working memory influence the visual attention.Quanshan LongTing LuoSheng ZhangYuanling JiangNa HuYan GuPeng XuAntao ChenInformation in working memory (WM) can guide visual attention towards matched features. While recent work has suggested that cognitive control can act upon WM guidance of visual attention, little is known about how the state of memorized items retaining in WM contribute to its influence over attention. Here, we disentangle the role of inhibition and maintenance on WM-guided attention with a novel delayed match-to-sample dual-task. The results showed that active inhibition facilitated searching by diminishing sensory processing and deterring attentional guidance, indexed by an attenuated P1 amplitude and unaffected N2pc amplitude, respectively. By contrast, active maintenance impaired searching by attentional guidance while sensory processing remained unimpaired, indexed by an enhanced N2pc amplitude and unchanged P1 amplitude, respectively. Furthermore, multivariate pattern analyses could sucessfully decode maintenance and inhibition, suggesting that two states differed in modulating visual attention. We propose that remembered contents may play an anchoring role for attentional guidance, and the state of those contents retaining in WM may directly influence the shifting of attention. The maintenance could guide attention by accessing input information, while the inhibition could deter the shifting of attention by suppressing sensory processing. These findings provide a possible reinterpretation of the influence of WM on attention.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242721 |
| spellingShingle | Quanshan Long Ting Luo Sheng Zhang Yuanling Jiang Na Hu Yan Gu Peng Xu Antao Chen The state of memory-matched distractor in working memory influence the visual attention. PLoS ONE |
| title | The state of memory-matched distractor in working memory influence the visual attention. |
| title_full | The state of memory-matched distractor in working memory influence the visual attention. |
| title_fullStr | The state of memory-matched distractor in working memory influence the visual attention. |
| title_full_unstemmed | The state of memory-matched distractor in working memory influence the visual attention. |
| title_short | The state of memory-matched distractor in working memory influence the visual attention. |
| title_sort | state of memory matched distractor in working memory influence the visual attention |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242721 |
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