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- Title
Working memory and the guidance of visual attention: Consonance-driven orienting.
- Authors
Liqiang Huang; Harold Pashler
- Abstract
Two experiments investigated the potential role of the content of working memory in guiding visual attention. Experiment 1 showed that maintaining a shape in working memory resulted in a decisive preference for moving attention to the same shape in the background when those shapes were task irrelevant. Experiment 2 showed a similar preference for words that were semantically related to an item held in working memory. We suggest that keeping an item active in working memory automatically results in a tendency for attention to be "attracted" to stimuli that are related to that item either visually or semantically.
- Subjects
SHORT-term memory; ATTENTION; COGNITIVE consistency; MEMORY
- Publication
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2007, Vol 14, Issue 1, p148
- ISSN
1069-9384
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3758/BF03194042