ArticleJournal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance2015
Supraliminal but not subliminal distracters bias working memory recall.
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- Serial dependence in visual perception: A meta-analysis and review.Journal of vision · 2023Pooled it
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- Bias in Visual Short-Term Memory for Motion Induced by Perceptually Suppressed Distractors.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Memory reports are biased by all relevant contents of working memory.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Are irrelevant items actively deleted from visual working memory?: No evidence from repulsion and attraction effects in dual-retrocue tasks.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2023Article
- Interference between items stored for distinct tasks in visual working memory.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2023Article
- Prioritization sharpens working memories but does not protect them from distraction.Journal of experimental psychology. General · 2023Article
- Concurrent visual working memory bias in sequential integration of approximate number.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Distraction in Visual Working Memory: Resistance is Not Futile.Trends in cognitive sciences · 2021Review
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- Flexible Coding of Visual Working Memory Representations during Distraction.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2018Article
- Benefits of flexible prioritization in working memory can arise without costs.Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance · 2018Article
- Short-term memory for spatial, sequential and duration information.Current opinion in behavioral sciences · 2017Review
- Exploring the contributions of the supplementary eye field to subliminal inhibition using double-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation.Human brain mapping · 2017Article
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Abstract
Information of which observers are not consciously aware can nevertheless influence perceptual processes. Whether subliminal information might exert an influence on working memory (WM) representations is less clear, and relatively few studies have examined the interactions between subliminal and supraliminal information in WM. We present 3 experiments examining this issue. Experiments 1a and b replicated the finding that orientation stimuli can influence behavior subliminally in a visuomotor priming task. Experiments 2 and 3 used the same orientation stimuli, but participants had to remember a target orientation and report it back by adjusting a probe orientation after a memory delay. Before or after presentation of the target orientation, a subliminal or supraliminal distracter orientation was presented that was either irrelevant for task completion and never had to be reported (Experiment 2), or was relevant for task completion because it had to be reported on some trials (Experiment 3). In both experiments, presentation of a supraliminal distracter influenced WM recall of the target orientation. When the distracter was presented subliminally, however, there was no bias in orientation recall. These results suggest that information stored in WM is protected from influences of subliminal stimuli, while online information processing is modulated by subliminal information.
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