Early top-down control of internal selection induced by retrospective cues in visual working memory: advantage of peripheral over central cues

Han, Sizhu; Zhou, Huihui; Tian, Yonghong; Ku, Yixuan

doi:10.1016/j.pneurobio.2023.102521

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“…However, until now, whether the analogous distinction between involuntary and voluntary attention operates within the contents of WM has been largely unexplored, and most researchers have relied on voluntary retro-cues uniquely (Camos et al, 2018). Nevertheless, some studies have investigated the effects of involuntary and voluntary attention on WM contents employing retro-cueing paradigms (Berryhill et al, 2012;Fu et al, 2022;Gunseli et al, 2015Gunseli et al, , 2019Han & Ku, 2022;Han et al, 2023;Shimi et al, 2014;van Ede et al, 2020). Generally, through recognition and delay estimation tasks, these studies have shown that voluntary attention elicits both benefits and costs on accuracy and/or reaction times (RTs), when measured.…”

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Competing Working Memory Contents: Perceptual over Semantic Prioritization and Voluntary Retrieval following Retro-Cueing

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González-García²,

Martín-Arévalo³

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Retrospective attention is involuntarily or voluntarily oriented to working memory (WM) contents. Previous research has not assessed voluntary attention ruling out the effects of involuntary attention. Furthermore, it is unknown whether the voluntariness of attention impacts differently on perceptual and semantic WM contents. To address this, reaction time and accuracy data from two retro-cueing experiments were modeled with a drift-diffusion model. Surprisingly, the voluntariness of attention did not interact with the WM content type. In turn, drift rates indicated that attention exerted greater retro-cueing effects on perceptual vs. semantic WM contents, and non‐decision times revealed effects only for voluntary attention. This evidences: first, that attention has a stronger impact on the quality of perceptual over semantic contents when they compete for WM storage; second, that voluntariness is crucial for retrieving WM contents in advance of decision-making; finally, the effects of voluntary attention can be independent of involuntary attentional orienting.

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