ArticleJournal of experimental psychology. General2021
The visual arrays task: Visual storage capacity or attention control?
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- Individual differences in attention control: A meta-analysis and re-analysis of latent variable studies.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2024Pooled it
- Beyond Working Memory Capacity: Attention Control as the Underlying Mechanism of Cognitive Abilities.Journal of Intelligence · 2026Review
- Neither measurement error nor speed-accuracy trade-offs explain the difficulty of establishing attentional control as a psychometric construct: Evidence from a latent-variable analysis using diffusion modeling.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2025Review
- Task-related changes in aperiodic activity are related to visual working memory capacity independent of event-related potentials and alpha oscillations.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Modality matters: Three auditory conflict tasks to measure individual differences in attention control.Behavior research methods · 2024Article
- Some young adults hyper-bind too: Attentional control relates to individual differences in hyper-binding.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2024Article
- Sequential encoding paradigm reliably captures the individual differences from a simultaneous visual working memory task.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2023Article
- Working Memory Capacity Depends on Attention Control, but Not Selective Attention.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Behind the scenes: Impact of virtual backgrounds in educational videos on visual processing and learning outcomes.Journal of eye movement research · 2023Article
- The role of attention control in complex real-world tasks.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2022Review
- A unique neural signature of long-term memory encoding from EEG inter-electrode correlation.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.)Article
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Abstract
Extant literature suggests that performance on visual arrays tasks reflects limited-capacity storage of visual information. However, there is also evidence to suggest that visual arrays task performance reflects individual differences in controlled processing. The purpose of this study is to empirically evaluate the degree to which visual arrays tasks are more closely related to memory storage capacity or measures of attention control. To this end, we conducted new analyses on a series of large data sets that incorporate various versions of a visual arrays task. Based on these analyses, we suggest that the degree to which the visual arrays is related to memory storage ability or effortful attention control may be task-dependent. Specifically, when versions of the task require participants to ignore elements of the target display, individual differences in controlled attention reliably provide unique predictive value. Therefore, at least some versions of the visual arrays tasks can be used as valid indicators of individual differences in attention control. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).
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