Different states in visual working memory: When it guides attention and when it does not

CNL Olivers, J Peters, R Houtkamp… - Trends in cognitive …, 2011 - cell.com
Recent studies have revealed a strong relationship between visual working memory and
selective attention, such that attention is biased by what is currently on our mind. However …

Working memory as internal attention: Toward an integrative account of internal and external selection processes

A Kiyonaga, T Egner - Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2013 - Springer
Working memory (WM) and attention have been studied as separate cognitive constructs,
although it has long been acknowledged that attention plays an important role in controlling …

Distinct mechanisms for distractor suppression and target facilitation

MAP Noonan, N Adamian, A Pike… - Journal of …, 2016 - Soc Neuroscience
It is well established that preparatory attention improves processing of task-relevant stimuli.
Although it is often more important to ignore task-irrelevant stimuli, comparatively little is …

In competition for the attentional template: Can multiple items within visual working memory guide attention?

D van Moorselaar, J Theeuwes… - Journal of Experimental …, 2014 - psycnet.apa.org
Recent studies have revealed that the deployment of attention can be biased by the content
of visual working memory (VWM), but that stored memories do not always interact with …

Where do we store the memory representations that guide attention?

GF Woodman, NB Carlisle, RMG Reinhart - Journal of vision, 2013 - jov.arvojournals.org
During the last decade one of the most contentious and heavily studied topics in the
attention literature has been the role that working memory representations play in controlling …

Active suppression of distractors that match the contents of visual working memory

R Sawaki, SJ Luck - Visual cognition, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
The biased competition theory proposes that items matching the contents of visual working
memory will automatically have an advantage in the competition for attention. However …

[HTML][HTML] Looking, language, and memory: Bridging research from the visual world and visual search paradigms

F Huettig, CNL Olivers, RJ Hartsuiker - Acta psychologica, 2011 - Elsevier
In the visual world paradigm as used in psycholinguistics, eye gaze (ie visual orienting) is
measured in order to draw conclusions about linguistic processing. However, current …

[HTML][HTML] Automatic and strategic effects in the guidance of attention by working memory representations

NB Carlisle, GF Woodman - Acta psychologica, 2011 - Elsevier
Theories of visual attention suggest that working memory representations automatically
guide attention toward memory-matching objects. Some empirical tests of this prediction …

Allocation of resources in working memory: Theoretical and empirical implications for visual search

S Huynh Cong, D Kerzel - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2021 - Springer
Recently, working memory (WM) has been conceptualized as a limited resource, distributed
flexibly and strategically between an unlimited number of representations. In addition to …

Preparatory attention in visual cortex

E Battistoni, T Stein, MV Peelen - … of the New York Academy of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Top‐down attention is the mechanism that allows us to selectively process goal‐relevant
aspects of a scene while ignoring irrelevant aspects. A large body of research has …