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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Social Cognition

Background:

  • Joint attention facilitates perceptual processing.
  • Working memory (WM) is crucial for integrating information and environmental comprehension.
  • The impact of joint attention on WM remains unexplored.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the direct influence of joint attention on visual working memory (WM).
  • To determine if social cues uniquely enhance WM encoding compared to non-social cues.

Main Methods:

  • A novel paradigm combining gaze-based joint attention cues with a visual WM task.
  • Participants encoded colored squares following valid, invalid, or direct gaze cues.
  • WM accuracy was measured by participants identifying a test square color after a delay.

Main Results:

  • WM accuracy was significantly higher when information was encoded under valid joint attention cues compared to invalid or direct gaze cues.
  • Non-social cues (arrow, motion) did not reliably modulate WM performance.
  • Social cues, specifically gaze, demonstrated a powerful effect on WM.

Conclusions:

  • Joint attention provides a reference point that enhances information encoding into WM.
  • Social cues play a critical role in optimizing WM function.
  • This study offers the first direct evidence linking joint attention to improved WM.