Working memory can guide pop-out search.
Top-down feedback from working memory (WM) can exert an early and involuntary influence on visual selection for targets that are relatively difficult to discriminate [Soto, D., Heinke, D., Humphreys, G. W., and Blanco, M. J. (2005) Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance...
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| description | Top-down feedback from working memory (WM) can exert an early and involuntary influence on visual selection for targets that are relatively difficult to discriminate [Soto, D., Heinke, D., Humphreys, G. W., and Blanco, M. J. (2005) Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 31, 248]. Here, we demonstrate similar effects even on search for a pop-out target. At the beginning of each trial, participants memorized a prime that could contain either the search target or a distracter in the subsequent search array. Targets and distractors were easily discriminable. Despite this, the prime in WM affected responses latencies and the direction of the first saccade. Top-down search, guided by the contents of WM, can modulate selection even when salient bottom-up cues are present. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:74954363-8219-4c6d-b95b-20f7948b3bbe2022-03-26T20:03:51ZWorking memory can guide pop-out search.Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:74954363-8219-4c6d-b95b-20f7948b3bbeEnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2006Soto, DHumphreys, GHeinke, DTop-down feedback from working memory (WM) can exert an early and involuntary influence on visual selection for targets that are relatively difficult to discriminate [Soto, D., Heinke, D., Humphreys, G. W., and Blanco, M. J. (2005) Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 31, 248]. Here, we demonstrate similar effects even on search for a pop-out target. At the beginning of each trial, participants memorized a prime that could contain either the search target or a distracter in the subsequent search array. Targets and distractors were easily discriminable. Despite this, the prime in WM affected responses latencies and the direction of the first saccade. Top-down search, guided by the contents of WM, can modulate selection even when salient bottom-up cues are present. |
| spellingShingle | Soto, D Humphreys, G Heinke, D Working memory can guide pop-out search. |
| title | Working memory can guide pop-out search. |
| title_full | Working memory can guide pop-out search. |
| title_fullStr | Working memory can guide pop-out search. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Working memory can guide pop-out search. |
| title_short | Working memory can guide pop-out search. |
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