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ArticleAttention, perception & psychophysics2020

Attention and binding in visual working memory: Two forms of attention and two kinds of buffer storage.

Graham J Hitch, Richard J Allen, Alan D Baddeley

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Article in Attention, perception & psychophysics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers.

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45 citing papers in PubMed.

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3 authors.

Graham J HitchUniversity of York, York, UK. gjh3@york.ac.uk.
Richard J AllenUniversity of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
Alan D BaddeleyUniversity of York, York, UK.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We review our research on the episodic buffer in the multicomponent model of working memory (Baddeley, 2000), making explicit the influence of Anne Treisman's work on the way our research has developed. The crucial linking theme concerns binding, whereby the individual features of an episode are combined as integrated representations. We summarize a series of experiments on visual working memory that investigated the retention of feature bindings and individual features. The effects of cognitive load, perceptual distraction, prioritization, serial position, and their interactions form a coherent pattern. We interpret our findings as demonstrating contrasting roles of externally driven and internally driven attentional processes, as well as a distinction between visual buffer storage and the focus of attention. Our account has strong links with Treisman's concept of focused attention and aligns with a number of contemporary approaches to visual working memory.

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AttentionMemory, Short-TermVisual PerceptionFemaleHumansMaleYoung AdultAttentionVisual working memoryWorking memory

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PMID31420804
PMCPMC6994435

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