Simultaneous Attentional Guidance by Working-Memory and Selection History Reveals Two Distinct Sources of Attention
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-1-2013
Journal / Book Title
Acta Psychologia
Abstract
Recent theories of attention have proposed that selection history is a separate, dissociable source of information that influences attention. The current study sought to investigate the simultaneous involvement of selection history and working-memory on attention during visual search. Experiments 1 and 2 used target feature probability to manipulate selection history and found significant effects of both working-memory and selection history, although working-memory dominated selection history when they cued different locations. Experiment 3 eliminated the contribution of voluntary refreshing of working-memory and replicated the main effects, although selection history became dominant. Using the same methodology, but with reduced probability cue validity, both effects were present in Experiment 4 and did not significantly differ in their contribution to attention. Effects of selection history and working-memory never interacted. These results suggest that selection history and working-memory are separate influences on attention and have little impact on each other. Theoretical implications for models of attention are discussed.
DOI
10.1016/j.actpsy.2013.06.017
MSU Digital Commons Citation
Schwark, Jeremy D.; Dolgov, Igor; Sandry, Joshua; and Volkman, C. Brooks, "Simultaneous Attentional Guidance by Working-Memory and Selection History Reveals Two Distinct Sources of Attention" (2013). Department of Psychology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works. 448.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/psychology-facpubs/448
Published Citation
Schwark, J. D., Dolgov, I., Sandry, J., & Volkman, C. B. (2013). Simultaneous attentional guidance by working-memory and selection history reveals two distinct sources of attention. Acta Psychologica, 144(2), 269-278. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2013.06.017
