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Visual Working Memory Modulates Rapid Eye Movements to Simple Onset Targets
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Visual Working Memory Modulates Rapid Eye Movements to Simple Onset Targets

Andrew Hollingworth, Michi Matsukura and Steven J Luck
Psychological science, Vol.24(5), pp.790-796
05/2013
DOI: 10.1177/0956797612459767
PMCID: PMC3901956
PMID: 23508739
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/3901956View
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Abstract

Visual working memory (VWM) representations influence attention and gaze control in complex tasks, such as visual search, that require top-down selection to resolve stimulus competition. VWM and visual attention clearly interact, but the mechanism of that interaction is not well understood. Here we demonstrate that VWM representations of object features influence the spatiotemporal dynamics of extremely simple eye movements, in the absence of stimulus competition or goal-level biases. The reach of VWM therefore extends into the most basic operations of the oculomotor system.
Eye Movements Visual Attention Visual Memory Visual Perception

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