Journal article
The role of visual working memory (VWM) in the control of gaze during visual search
Attention, perception & psychophysics, Vol.71(4), pp.936-949
05/2009
DOI: 10.3758/APP.71.4.936
PMCID: PMC2776634
PMID: 19429970
Abstract
We investigated the interactions among visual working memory (VWM), attention, and gaze control in a visual search task that was performed while a color was held in VWM for a concurrent discrimination task. In the search task, participants were required to foveate a cued item within a circular array of colored objects. During the saccade to the target, the array was sometimes rotated so that the eyes landed midway between the target object and an adjacent distractor object, necessitating a second saccade to foveate the target. When the color of the adjacent distractor matched a color being maintained in VWM, execution of this secondary saccade was impaired, indicating that the current contents of VWM bias saccade targeting mechanisms that direct gaze toward target objects during visual search.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The role of visual working memory (VWM) in the control of gaze during visual search
- Creators
- Andrew Hollingworth - Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1407, USA. andrew-hollingworth@uiowa.eduSteven J Luck
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Attention, perception & psychophysics, Vol.71(4), pp.936-949
- DOI
- 10.3758/APP.71.4.936
- PMID
- 19429970
- PMCID
- PMC2776634
- ISSN
- 1943-3921
- eISSN
- 1943-393X
- Grant note
- R01 EY017356-01 / NEI NIH HHS R01 EY017356 / NEI NIH HHS R01EY017356 / NEI NIH HHS
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/2009
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9984213273702771
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