Long-term memory for distractors: Effects of involuntary attention from working memory.
In a visual search task, attention to task-irrelevant distractors impedes search performance. However, is it maladaptive to future performance? Here, I showed that attended distractors in a visual search task were better remembered in long-term memory (LTM) in the subsequent surprise recognition tas...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 52; no. 2; pp. 401 - 417 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=175755608&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 175755608 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 0090502X MEG jtl: Memory & Cognition issn: 0090502X maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Feb2024 vid: 52 iid: 2 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 175755608 10.3758/s13421-023-01469-5 ppf: 401 ppct: 16 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 1.2MB tig: atl: Long-term memory for distractors: Effects of involuntary attention from working memory. aug: au: Moriya, Jun affil: https://ror.org/03xg1f311 Faculty of Sociology, Kansai University, 3-3-35 Yamate-cho, Suita-shi, Osaka, Japan su: Memory Recognition (Psychology) Task performance Attention One-way analysis of variance Comparative studies Visual perception Descriptive statistics Research funding Color sug: subj: Memory Recognition (Psychology) Task performance Attention One-way analysis of variance Comparative studies Visual perception Descriptive statistics Research funding Color keyword: Attentional guidance Long-term memory Visual search Working memory Attentional guidance Long-term memory Visual search Working memory ab: In a visual search task, attention to task-irrelevant distractors impedes search performance. However, is it maladaptive to future performance? Here, I showed that attended distractors in a visual search task were better remembered in long-term memory (LTM) in the subsequent surprise recognition task than non-attended distractors. In four experiments, participants performed a visual search task using real-world objects of a single color. They encoded color in working memory (WM) during the task; because each object had a different color, participants directed their attention to the WM-matching colored distractor. Then, in the surprise recognition task, participants were required to indicate whether an object had been shown in the earlier visual search task, regardless of its color. The results showed that attended distractors were remembered better in LTM than non-attended distractors (Experiments 1 and 2). Moreover, the more participants directed their attention to distractors, the better they explicitly remembered them. Participants did not explicitly remember the color of the attended distractors (Experiment 3) but remembered integrated information with object and color (Experiment 4). When the color of the distractors in the recognition task was mismatched with the color in the visual search task, LTM decreased compared to color-matching distractors. These results suggest that attention to distractors impairs search for a target but is helpful in remembering distractors in LTM. When task-irrelevant distractors become task-relevant information in the future, their attention becomes beneficial. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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