Trial reportScientific reports2021
Individual differences in working memory capacity are unrelated to the magnitudes of retrocue benefits.
Trial report in Scientific reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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11 citing papers in PubMed.
- Flexibility of internal attention: divergent spatiotemporal profiles for feature and object cueing.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 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
- All identical objects reduce memory load at the late maintenance stage in working memory.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Comparing retro-cue benefit mechanisms in visual working memory: completely valid vs. highly valid retro-cues.BMC psychology · 2024Article
- Dimension-based retro-cue benefit in working memory does not require unfocused dimension removal.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- A diffusion model analysis of age and individual differences in the retro-cue benefit.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Sustained attention required for effective dimension-based retro-cue benefit in visual working memory.Journal of vision · 2023Article
- Alterations in working memory maintenance of fearful face distractors in depressed participants: An ERP study.Journal of vision · 2023Article
- Encoding specificity instead of online integration of real-world spatial regularities for objects in working memory.Journal of vision · 2022Article
- Negative and Positive Bias for Emotional Faces: Evidence from the Attention and Working Memory Paradigms.Neural plasticity · 2021Review
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Abstract
Previous studies have associated visual working memory (VWM) capacity with the use of internal attention. Retrocues, which direct internal attention to a particular object or feature dimension, can improve VWM performance (i.e., retrocue benefit, RCB). However, so far, no study has investigated the relationship between VWM capacity and the magnitudes of RCBs obtained from object-based and dimension-based retrocues. The present study explored individual differences in the magnitudes of object- and dimension-based RCBs and their relationships with VWM capacity. Participants completed a VWM capacity measurement, an object-based cue task, and a dimension-based cue task. We confirmed that both object- and dimension-based retrocues could improve VWM performance. We also found a significant positive correlation between the magnitudes of object- and dimension-based RCB indexes, suggesting a partly overlapping mechanism between the use of object- and dimension-based retrocues. However, our results provided no evidence for a correlation between VWM capacity and the magnitudes of the object- or dimension-based RCBs. Although inadequate attention control is usually assumed to be associated with VWM capacity, the results suggest that the internal attention mechanism for using retrocues in VWM retention is independent of VWM capacity.
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