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- Title
Direct evidence for a role of working memory in the attentional blink.
- Authors
Akyürek, Elkan G.; Hommel, Bernhard; Jolicœur, Pierre
- Abstract
Theories of selective attention often have a central memory component, which is commonly thought to be limited in some way and is thereby a potential bottleneck in the attentional process. There have been only a few attempts to validate this assertion, and they have produced mixed results. This study presents a specific examination of the link between working memory and attention by engaging active rather than passive memory operations. Two experiments are reported that provide evidence for the involvement of working memory in the attentional blink (AB) phenomenon. Memory loads of increasing size had a detrimental effect on attentional performance within the blink-sensitive interval, but not beyond. Speeded response requirements proved to modulate the AB, but were independent from the memory load effect. Theoretical implications for current models of selective attention are discussed.
- Subjects
SHORT-term memory; MEMORY; RECOLLECTION (Psychology); COGNITION; EMOTIONS &; cognition; VISUAL learning; VISUAL perception; SENSORY perception; EXPERIMENTS
- Publication
Memory & Cognition, 2007, Vol 35, Issue 4, p621
- ISSN
0090-502X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3758/BF03193300