Incidental Biasing of Attention from Visual Long-Term Memory

Autor/inn/en	Fan, Judith E.; Turk-Browne, Nicholas B.
Titel	Incidental Biasing of Attention from Visual Long-Term Memory
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 42 (2016) 6, S.970-977 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0278-7393
DOI	10.1037/xlm0000209
Schlagwörter	Attention; Long Term Memory; Novelty (Stimulus Dimension); Visual Stimuli; Short Term Memory; Adults; Cognitive Processes; Recall (Psychology); Geometric Concepts; Statistical Analysis; Observation; Bias; New Jersey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Aufmerksamkeit; Langzeitgedächtnis; Kurzzeitgedächtnis; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Abberufung; Elementare Geometrie; Statistische Analyse; Beobachtung
Abstract	Holding recently experienced information in mind can help us achieve our current goals. However, such immediate and direct forms of guidance from working memory are less helpful over extended delays or when other related information in long-term memory is useful for reaching these goals. Here we show that information that was encoded in the past but is no longer present or relevant to the task also guides attention. We examined this by associating multiple unique features with novel shapes in visual long-term memory (VLTM), and subsequently testing how memories for these objects biased the deployment of attention. In Experiment 1, VLTM for associated features guided visual search for the shapes, even when these features had never been task-relevant. In Experiment 2, associated features captured attention when presented in isolation during a secondary task that was completely unrelated to the shapes. These findings suggest that long-term memory enables a durable and automatic type of memory-based attentional control. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01