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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Visual Perception

Background:

  • Working memory (WM) content influences attention and perception.
  • Active maintenance of visual items in WM can bias attention and enhance perceptual processing of matching items.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether a working memory (WM)-matching distractor interferes with the perceptual processing of a target's features.
  • To determine if WM-matching distractors cause systematic perceptual interference or general processing disruptions.

Main Methods:

  • A dual-task paradigm was employed.
  • Participants maintained a shape in WM while performing a visual search task.
  • Continuous-report technique was used to reproduce the color of a target item.

Main Results:

  • No evidence of systematic perceptual interference (e.g., color swapping) was found when the WM shape matched a distractor.
  • General disruptions in target processing, such as decreased accuracy, were observed.
  • Automatic perceptual processing of WM-matching distractors appears too weak to significantly interfere with target feature processing.

Conclusions:

  • WM-matching distractors do not cause significant feature-specific perceptual interference with targets.
  • Attention drawn to WM-matching distractors leads to general, not specific, processing disruptions.
  • The impact of WM-matching distractors on perception is limited, suggesting transient or weak automatic processing.