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Strategic inhibition of distractors with visual working memory contents after involuntary attention capture.
Trial report in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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12 citing papers in PubMed.
- Working memory capacity affects trade-off between quality and quantity only when stimulus exposure duration is sufficient: Evidence for the two-phase model.Scientific reports · 2019Trial
- Effects of similar information in the search task on visual working memory representation.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2026Article
- Color first, space next, orientation last: A temporal comparison of retro-cue effects in visual working memory.Memory & cognition · 2026Article
- Early or late distractions hurt working memory differently depending on how long you look.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Semantically congruent bimodal presentation modulates cognitive control over attentional guidance by working memory.Memory & cognition · 2024Article
- The auditory stimulus facilitates memory guidance in distractor suppression in males with substance use disorder.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Negative and positive templates: Two forms of cued attentional control.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2023Review
- Multisensory Enhancement of Cognitive Control over Working Memory Capture of Attention in Children with ADHD.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- The Rejection Template of Working Memory Operates after Attention Capture.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Training modulates memory-driven capture.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2022Article
- Negative and Positive Bias for Emotional Faces: Evidence from the Attention and Working Memory Paradigms.Neural plasticity · 2021Review
- Validating the relation-monitoring task as a measure of relational integration and predictor of fluid intelligence.Memory & cognition · 2019Article
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Abstract
Previous research has suggested that visual working memory (VWM) contents had a guiding effect on selective attention, and once participants realized that the distractors shared the same information with VWM contents in the search task, they would strategically inhibit the potential distractors with VWM contents. However, previous behavioral studies could not reveal the way how distractors with VWM contents are inhibited strategically. By employing the eye-tracking technique and a dual-task paradigm, we manipulated the probability of memory items occurring as distractors to explore this issue. Consistent with previous behavioral studies, the results showed that the inhibitory effect occurred only in the high-probability condition, while the guiding effect emerged in the low-probability condition. More importantly, the eye-movement results indicated that in the high-probability condition, once few (even one) distractors with VWM contents were captured at first, all the remaining distractors with VWM contents would be rejected as a whole. However, in the low-probability condition, attention could be captured by the majority of distractors with VWM contents. These results suggested that the guiding effect of VWM contents on attention is involuntary in the early stage of visual search. After the completion of this involuntary stage, the guiding effect of task-irrelevant VWM contents on attention could be strategically controlled.
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