Attentional enhancement predicts individual differences in visual working memory under go/no-go search conditions.

ABSTRACT: Attention-control processes transfer relevant information to visual working memory (WM) and prevent irrelevant information from consuming WM resources. Although event-related potentials (ERPs) have revealed attention-control processes associated with enhancement of relevant stimuli (targets) and suppression of irrelevant stimuli (distractors), only the suppressive processes have been found to predict WM capacity. We hypothesised a link between target-enhancement processes and WM capacity would be revealed in a task that requires more control than the conventional visual search paradigms used to study target selection. Here, participants searched for a pop-out target on Go trials and withheld responses on an equal number of randomly intermixed No-Go trials, depending on the colour of the st

SUBMITTER: Tay D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9731499 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature