Automatic guidance of visual attention from verbal working memory.

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Abstract:: Previous studies have shown that visual attention can be captured by stimuli matching the contents of working memory (WM). Here, the authors assessed the nature of the representation that mediates the guidance of visual attention from WM. Observers were presented with either verbal or visual primes (to hold in memory, Experiment 1; to verbalize, Experiment 2; or merely to attend, Experiment 3) and subsequently were required to search for a target among different distractors, each embedded wit...
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University of Oxford

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MSD

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Experimental Psychology

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Journal:: Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance
Volume:: 33
Issue:: 3
Pages:: 730-737
Publication date:: 2007-06-01
DOI:: 10.1037/0096-1523.33.3.730
EISSN:: 1939-1277
ISSN:: 0096-1523

Language:: English
Keywords:: Memory, Short-Term

Humans

Attention

Vocabulary

Visual Perception

Automatism
Pubs id:: pubs:311471
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Source identifiers:: 311471
Deposit date:: 2013-11-16

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