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  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Visual Perception

Background:

  • Attention is known to be biased by working memory contents.
  • Debate exists on whether this bias affects early perceptual stages or later decision-making processes.
  • Previous findings suggesting perceptual effects have been attributed to reduced target location uncertainty.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if memory-driven attentional bias affects the perceptual stage of information processing.
  • To determine if observed perceptual effects are solely due to reduced target location uncertainty.

Main Methods:

  • Experimental manipulation of working memory contents and stimulus competition.
  • Utilizing a response cue to indicate target location, independent of working memory prediction.
  • Assessing perceptual effects of attentional bias under varying conditions.

Main Results:

  • Working memory contents significantly biased attention and affected target stimulus perception.
  • This perceptual effect was pronounced when stimuli competed, suggesting resolution of competition.
  • The effect persisted even when working memory contents did not predict target location, ruling out location uncertainty as the sole cause.

Conclusions:

  • Memory-driven attentional bias impacts the perceptual processing of stimuli.
  • This bias operates automatically and involuntarily, influencing perception by resolving stimulus competition.
  • Findings challenge explanations solely based on reduced target location uncertainty.