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Object features reinstated from episodic memory guide attentional selection.

Dirk Kerzel¹, Maïté Kun-Sook Andres¹

¹Faculté de Psychologie et des Sciences de l'Education, Université de Genève, Switzerland.

|January 28, 2020

Summary

Visual working memory (VWM) templates are enhanced by long-term memory. Associated colors from memory automatically guide visual search, improving target selection efficiency.

Keywords:

Attentional selection Attentional template Episodic memory Feature-based attention Visual search Visual working memory

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Neuroscience
Visual Perception
Human Memory

Background:

Visual search relies on attentional templates in visual working memory (VWM).
Precise attentional templates enhance visual search efficiency.
The role of long-term memory in complementing VWM templates is not fully understood.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate if long-term memory features automatically complement attentional templates in VWM.
To determine if learned associations can enhance the precision of VWM representations.
To examine the influence of episodic memory on visual search guidance.

Main Methods:

A saccadic selection task involving memory and choice displays.
Participants learned shape-color associations.
Target shapes were presented without color in VWM, then tested for color influence in a search task.

Main Results:

Saccades were more frequently directed to the target shape when it appeared in its learned associated color.
This effect occurred even when the target shape was initially colorless in VWM.
Color information was reinstated from episodic memory to guide search.

Conclusions:

Attentional templates in VWM are dynamically complemented by features retrieved from long-term memory.
Learned associations can automatically enhance VWM representations and guide visual attention.
Episodic memory plays a crucial role in optimizing visual search performance.