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The Effect of Content Familiarity on Memory-Based Attention Allocation

The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology / The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, (P)1226-9654; (E)2733-466X
2009, v.21 no.2, pp.129-145
https://doi.org/10.22172/cogbio.2009.21.2.005
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Beckman Institute)

& (2009). The Effect of Content Familiarity on Memory-Based Attention Allocation. The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, 21(2), 129-145, https://doi.org/10.22172/cogbio.2009.21.2.005

Abstract

Studies of attention and working memory address that working memory contents guide attention to the memory-matching object in the scene. The present study investigated whether familiarity of working memory contents modulates the memory-based attention allocation. We measured the attention allocation by comparing response times (RT) for memory-matching or non-matching probes while maintaining either novel or familiar object in working memory. When a novel object was maintained in working memory, probe RTs at the memory-match object were significantly faster than those on non-match object (Experiment 1). However, when participants maintained a familiar or highly learned object in working memory, there was no probe RT advantage for the memory-match object (Experiments 2, 3, and 4). These results demonstrate that working memory does not automatically bias attention towards the memory-matching item; instead, the bias was present only for novel working memory contents. Thus, the guidance of attention by working memory contents could be due to a top-down strategy where participants re-sample the memory item in the visual array in order to reduce the cognitive complexity of working memory maintenance.

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시각적 작업 기억, 공간적 주의, 친숙성, visual working memory, spatial attention, familiarity, visual working memory, spatial attention, familiarity

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