Ignoring versus updating in working memory reveal differential roles of attention and feature binding.

ABSTRACT: Ignoring distracting information and updating current contents are essential components of working memory (WM). Yet, although both require controlling irrelevant information, it is unclear whether they have the same effects on recall and produce the same level of misbinding errors (incorrectly joining the features of different memoranda). Moreover, the likelihood of misbinding may be affected by the feature similarity between the items already encoded into memory and the information that has to be filtered out (ignored) or updated into memory. Here, we investigate these questions. Participants were sequentially presented with two pairs of arrows. The first pair of arrows always had to be encoded into memory, but the second pair either had to be ignored (ignore condition) or allowed to disp

SUBMITTER: Fallon SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6181802 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature