Internal selective attention is delayed by competition between endogenous and exogenous factors.

ABSTRACT: External attention is mediated by competition between endogenous (goal-driven) and exogenous (stimulus-driven) factors, with the balance of competition determining which stimuli are selected. Occasionally, exogenous factors "win" this competition and drive the selection of task-irrelevant stimuli. Endogenous and exogenous selection mechanisms may also compete to control the selection of internal representations (e.g., those stored in working memory), but whether this competition is resolved in the same way as external attention is unknown. Here, we leveraged the high temporal resolution of human EEG to determine how competition between endogenous and exogenous factors influences the selection of internal representations. Unlike external attention, competition did not prompt the selection o

SUBMITTER: Ester EF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10371823 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature