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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Visual Perception

Background:

  • Attentional capture is influenced by working memory contents in controlled lab settings.
  • Real-world environments present complex visual stimuli that may alter memory-driven attention.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if working memory contents capture attention in realistic environments.
  • To determine if memory-driven attentional capture occurs automatically in complex settings.

Main Methods:

  • Participants searched for targets in real-world indoor scenes (IKEA® catalogue images).
  • Participants maintained a visual object in working memory during the search task.

Main Results:

  • Attention was biased towards objects matching working memory contents.
  • This bias interfered with target search performance.
  • Attentional capture occurred even without expectation of memory-matching stimuli.

Conclusions:

  • Working memory effectively biases attention in complex, natural environments.
  • Memory-driven attentional capture in real-world settings appears to be an automatic process.