Visual working memory load does not eliminate visuomotor repetition effects.

ABSTRACT: When we respond to a stimulus, our ability to quickly execute this response depends on how combinations of stimulus and response features match to previous combinations of stimulus and response features. Some kind of memory representations must be underlying these visuomotor repetition effects. In this paper, we tested the hypothesis that visual working memory stores the stimulus information that gives rise to these effects. Participants discriminated the colors of successive stimuli while holding either three locations or colors in visual working memory. If visual working memory maintains the information about a previous event that leads to visuomotor repetition effects, then occupying working memory with colors or locations should selectively disrupt color-response and location-response

SUBMITTER: Rajsic J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7018594 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature