Does the presence of more features in a bound representation in working memory require extra object-based attention?

Recent studies have examined the role of attention in retaining bound representations in working memory (WM) and found that object-based attention plays a pivotal role. However, no study has investigated whether maintaining bound representations with more features in WM requires extra object-based a...

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Publicado en:Memory & Cognition Vol. 49; no. 8; pp. 1583 - 1600
Autores principales: Zhou, Ying, Wu, Fan, Wan, Xueyi, Shen, Mowei, Gao, Zaifeng
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Publicado: Springer Nature Nov2021
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          Zhou, Ying
          Wu, Fan
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        Analysis of variance
        Cognition
        Attention
        Statistics
        Confidence intervals
        Short-term memory
        Descriptive statistics
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          Confidence intervals
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      ab: Recent studies have examined the role of attention in retaining bound representations in working memory (WM) and found that object-based attention plays a pivotal role. However, no study has investigated whether maintaining bound representations with more features in WM requires extra object-based attention. We investigated this by examining whether a secondary task consuming object-based attention was more disruptive to the maintenance of bindings in WM when more features were stored per object. We instructed participants to memorize three bound representations in a WM task while manipulating the number of features (two vs. three features) contained in each representation. Moreover, we manipulated whether a secondary task consuming object-based attention was interpolated into the maintenance phase of WM. If extra object-based attention was required after the addition of an extra feature in the bound representation, the secondary task would result in a greater disruption of the three- rather than two-featured binding. In two experiments, we found that the added secondary task significantly impaired the binding performance, but the performance of the two- and three-featured bindings was disrupted to the same extent. These results suggest that the presence of more features in a bound representation in WM does not require extra object-based attention.
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