ArticleJournal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance2017
Adding details to the attentional template offsets search difficulty: Evidence from contralateral delay activity.
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- Allocation of resources in working memory: Theoretical and empirical implications for visual search.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2021Review
- Target templates in low target-distractor discriminability visual search have higher resolution, but the advantage they provide is short-lived.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2021Article
- Temporal Expectations Prepare Visual Working Memory for Behavior.Journal of cognitive neuroscience · 2020Article
- Visual working memory and action: Functional links and bi-directional influences.Visual cognition · 2020Article
- Template-to-distractor distinctiveness regulates visual search efficiency.Current opinion in psychology · 2019Review
- Incidental memory following rapid object processing: The role of attention allocation strategies.Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance · 2019Article
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We investigated how expected search difficultly affects the attentional template by having participants search for a teddy bear target among either other teddy bears (difficult search, high target-distractor similarity) or random nonbear objects (easy search, low target-distractor similarity). Target previews were identical in these 2 blocked conditions, and target-related visual working memory (VWM) load was measured using contralateral delay activity (CDA), an event-related potential indicating VWM load. CDA was assessed after target designation but before search display onset. Shortly after preview offset, the expectation of a difficult search produced a target-related CDA, suggesting the encoding and maintenance of target details in VWM. However, no differences in CDA were found immediately before search onset, suggesting a flexible and efficient weighting of the templates' features to reflect the expected demands of the search task. Moreover, CDA amplitude correlated with eye movement measures of search guidance in difficult search trials but not easy trials, suggesting that the utility of the attentional template is greater for more difficult searches. These findings are evidence that attentional templates depend on expected task difficulty, and that people may compensate for a more difficult search by adding details to their target representation in VWM, as measured by CDA. (PsycINFO Database Record
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