Task-Irrelevant Features in Visual Working Memory Influence Covert Attention: Evidence from a Partial Report Task.

ABSTRACT: Selecting a target based on a representation in visual working memory (VWM) affords biasing covert attention towards objects with memory-matching features. Recently, we showed that even task-irrelevant features of a VWM template bias attention. Specifically, when participants had to saccade to a cued shape, distractors sharing the cue's search-irrelevant color captured the eyes. While a saccade always aims at one target location, multiple locations can be attended covertly. Here, we investigated whether covert attention is captured similarly as the eyes. In our partial report task, each trial started with a shape-defined search cue, followed by a fixation cross. Next, two colored shapes, each including a letter, appeared left and right from fixation, followed by masks. The letter inside th

SUBMITTER: Foerster RM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6802802 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature