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Fabiano Botta1, Valerio Santangelo, Antonino Raffone

  • 1Department of Psychology, University Sapienza of Rome, Rome, Italy. fabianobottaster@gmail.com

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Exogenous and endogenous attention impact visuospatial working memory differently. Endogenous cues are sensitive to meridian crossings, while exogenous cues show a U-shaped distance effect, revealing distinct attentional biases.

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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Spatial attention mechanisms guide information processing.
  • Visuospatial working memory (VSWM) capacity is influenced by attentional processes.
  • The meridian effect and distance effect are known behavioral phenomena in spatial cognition.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the differential effects of exogenous and endogenous attention on VSWM.
  • To examine the impact of meridian and distance effects on VSWM under different attentional orienting conditions.

Main Methods:

  • Experiment 1 utilized exogenous cues to assess their influence on VSWM.
  • Experiment 2 employed endogenous cues to evaluate their impact on VSWM.
  • Behavioral performance was measured in relation to cue-target separation across meridians and distances.

Main Results:

  • A dissociation was observed between exogenous and endogenous orienting mechanisms.
  • Meridian crossing significantly affected VSWM performance with endogenous cues, more so than distance.
  • Exogenous cues demonstrated a U-shaped distance dependency in VSWM performance.

Conclusions:

  • Exogenous and endogenous attention exhibit distinct patterns of bias in VSWM.
  • Meridian effects are primarily associated with endogenous attentional control.
  • Distance effects show a different dependency pattern for exogenous attention in VSWM storage.