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Do working memory-driven attention shifts speed up visual awareness?

Yi Pan1, Qiu-Ping Cheng

  • 1Department of Psychology, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 310036, People's Republic of China. panyirich@zju.edu.cn

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Working memory (WM) content does not speed up conscious awareness of matching visual stimuli. Attention shifts driven by WM representations do not accelerate the perception of memory-matching items.

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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Visual Perception

Background:

  • Working memory (WM) content can bias attention towards matching stimuli.
  • Prior research suggests WM influences attentional selection.
  • The impact of WM on conscious awareness speed is not fully understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if WM-driven attention shifts accelerate conscious awareness of memory-matching visual stimuli.
  • To determine if holding a color cue in WM affects temporal order judgments (TOJ).
  • To examine the relationship between WM content, attention, and phenomenal awareness.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a visual prior-entry procedure with a temporal order judgment (TOJ) task.
  • Participants held a color cue in WM and judged the onset order of two colored circles.
  • One circle matched the WM cue color, while the other did not.

Main Results:

  • WM content did not significantly affect the awareness of temporal order in the TOJ task.
  • This null effect persisted even when participants knew a circle would match the WM cue.
  • A follow-up experiment showed WM-matching items could capture attention, improving response times.

Conclusions:

  • WM-driven attention shifts do not accelerate the phenomenal awareness of matching stimuli.
  • Conscious awareness speed is not enhanced by WM content influencing attention.
  • Distinction between attentional capture and accelerated awareness is highlighted.