Journal article
Feature-based guidance of attention by visual working memory is applied independently of remembered object location
Attention, perception & psychophysics, Vol.82(1), pp.98-108
01/2020
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-019-01759-8
PMCID: PMC6881539
PMID: 31140137
Abstract
Visual working memory (VWM) has been implicated both in the online representation of object tokens (in the object-file framework) and in the top-down guidance of attention during visual search, implementing a feature template. It is well established that object representations in VWM are structured by location, with access to the content of VWM modulated by position consistency. In the present study, we examined whether this property generalizes to the guidance of attention. Specifically, in two experiments, we probed whether the guidance of spatial attention from features in VWM is modulated by the position of the object from which these features were encoded. Participants remembered an object with an incidental color. Items in a subsequent search array could match either the color of the remembered object, the location, or both. Robust benefits of color match (when the matching item was the target) and costs (when the matching items was a distractor) were observed. Critically, the magnitude of neither effect was influenced by spatial correspondence. The results demonstrate that features in VWM influence attentional priority maps in a manner that does not necessarily inherit the spatial structure of the object representations in which those features are maintained.
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- Title: Subtitle
- Feature-based guidance of attention by visual working memory is applied independently of remembered object location
- Creators
- Andrew Hollingworth - Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Iowa, W311 Seashore Hall, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA. andrew-hollingworth@uiowa.eduBrett Bahle - Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Iowa, W311 Seashore Hall, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Attention, perception & psychophysics, Vol.82(1), pp.98-108
- Publisher
- United States
- DOI
- 10.3758/s13414-019-01759-8
- PMID
- 31140137
- PMCID
- PMC6881539
- ISSN
- 1943-3921
- eISSN
- 1943-393X
- Grant note
- R01 EY017356 / NEI NIH HHS R01 EY01735 / NIH HHS
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/2020
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9984002494702771
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