Trial reportJournal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance2014
Dissociating distractor-filtering at encoding and during maintenance.
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- Early or late distractions hurt working memory differently depending on how long you look.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- The differential impact of face distractors on visual working memory across encoding and delay stages.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2024Article
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- Aging and distractor resistance in working memory: Does emotional valence matter?BMC psychology · 2022Article
- Perceptual coupling and decoupling are associated with individual differences in working memory encoding and maintenance.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2022Article
- Impact of processing demands at encoding, maintenance and retrieval in visual working memory.Cognition · 2021Article
- Distraction in Visual Working Memory: Resistance is Not Futile.Trends in cognitive sciences · 2021Review
- Age Differences in the Efficiency of Filtering and Ignoring Distraction in Visual Working Memory.Brain sciences · 2020Article
- Gestalt grouping cues can improve filtering performance in visual working memory.Psychological research · 2019Article
- Age-dependent Pavlovian biases influence motor decision-making.PLoS computational biology · 2018Article
- The effect of mood state on visual search times for detecting a target in noise: An application of smartphone technology.PloS one · 2018Article
- Executive and perceptual distraction in visual working memory.Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance · 2017Article
- Interactions of emotion and anxiety on visual working memory performance.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2017Article
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Abstract
The effectiveness of distractor-filtering is a potentially important determinant of working memory capacity (WMC). However, a distinction between the contributions of distractor-filtering at WM encoding as opposed to filtering during maintenance has not been made and the assumption is that these rely on the same mechanism. Within 2 experiments, 1 conducted in the laboratory with 21 participants, and the other played as a game on smartphones (n = 3,247) we measure WMC without distractors, and present distractors during encoding or during the delay period of a WM task to determine performance associated with distraction at encoding and during maintenance. Despite differences in experimental setting and paradigm design between the 2 studies, we show a unique contribution to WMC from both encoding and delay distractor performance in both experiments, while controlling for performance in the absence of distraction. Thus, within 2 separate experiments, 1 involving an extremely large cohort of 3,247 participants, we show a dissociation between encoding and delay distractor-filtering, indicating that separate mechanisms may contribute to WMC.
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