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Encoded memories can unexpectedly capture attention during visual search tasks, leading to errors and slower reaction times. This suggests that past experiences, even when irrelevant, can influence our attentional focus and search efficiency.

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  • Visual Perception

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  • Everyday behavior relies on concurrent cognitive processes.
  • Long-term memory typically aids visual search (e.g., contextual cueing).
  • The potential for memories to negatively impact search efficiency was unexplored.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if task-irrelevant encoded objects capture attention.
  • To determine if episodic memory influences attentional capture in visual search.
  • To examine the effect of memory-attention interactions on search efficiency.

Main Methods:

  • Five experiments involved encoding scene-object pairs.
  • Participants performed a visual search task with 6-object displays.
  • Targets were defined by shape or color, with distractors sometimes from encoded sets.

Main Results:

  • Eye movements were erroneously made more often to encoded distractors than baseline distractors.
  • This effect was amplified when the corresponding scene preceded search.
  • Scene presentation slowed saccade deployment to targets and increased dwell time on distractors.

Conclusions:

  • Information encoded into episodic memory can capture attention.
  • This capture can decrease visual search efficiency.
  • Selection history, informed by memory, appears to guide attentional selection.