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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Visual Perception

Background:

  • Visual statistical learning guides attention by suppressing frequent distractor locations.
  • Attention and working memory (WM) are thought to share cognitive resources.
  • The interaction between learned distractor suppression and WM is not well understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if learned spatial suppression of distractors impacts WM representation.
  • To examine the role of working memory load in this interaction.
  • To explore the underlying mechanisms of attentional suppression and WM.

Main Methods:

  • Participants underwent a visual search task to induce statistical learning of distractor locations.
  • A delayed discrimination task assessed WM for targets at learned high- and low-probability distractor sites.
  • Two experiments manipulated working memory load (one vs. two targets).

Main Results:

  • Learned distractor suppression impaired WM performance at high, but not low, cognitive load.
  • Under high load, targets at high-probability distractor locations showed reduced sensitivity and increased false alarms.
  • This suggests a carry-over effect of attentional suppression on WM representation.

Conclusions:

  • The impact of learned attentional suppression on working memory is contingent on working memory load.
  • Statistical learning likely down-regulates sensory gain at suppressed locations.
  • Findings support a shared resource model for attention and working memory, where attentional biases influence WM.