Memory's grip on attention: The influence of item memory on the allocation of attention

Chanon, Vicki W.; Hopfinger, Joseph B.

doi:10.1080/13506280701459026

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“…Perhaps the closest analogues to our findings come from the growing literature on attentional guidance from long-term memory. These effects range from more implicit in the case of interference from semantic memory during search (Moores et al, 2003; Olivers, 2011; Rappaport et al, 2013), to more explicit in terms of the influence of episodic memory on search within scenes (Summerfield et al, 2006; West Chanon & Hopfinger, 2008; Stokes et al, 2012). …”

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Incidental biasing of attention from visual long-term memory.

Fan¹,

Turk‐Browne²

2016

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cogni

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Holding recently experienced information in mind can help us achieve our current goals. However, such immediate and direct forms of guidance from working memory are less helpful over extended delays or when other related information in long-term memory is useful for reaching these goals. Here we show that information that was encoded in the past but is no longer present or relevant to the task also guides attention. We examined this by associating multiple unique features with novel shapes in visual long-term memory (VLTM), and subsequently testing how memories for these objects biased the deployment of attention. In Experiment 1, VLTM for associated features guided visual search for the shapes, even when these features had never been task-relevant. In Experiment 2, associated features captured attention when presented in isolation during a secondary task that was completely unrelated to the shapes. These findings suggest that long-term memory enables a durable and automatic type of memory-based attentional control.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Incidental biasing of attention from visual long-term memory.

Fan¹,

Turk‐Browne²

2016

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cogni

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“…These early viewing effects seem to reflect a relatively pure index of past experience that is uninfluenced by explicit response strategies or motivations (see also Chanon & Hopfinger, 2008; Hannula et al, 2007; Holm, Eriksson, & Andersson, 2008; Richmond & Nelson, 2009; Ryan et al, 2007); such effects suggest the potential utility of eye movement measures in applied settings and in investigations conducted with populations whose performance may be misleading when testing is limited to explicit measures of memory (Luck & Gold, 2008). …”

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The Eyes Know

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In two experiments, we examined whether observers’ eye movements distinguish studied faces from highly similar novel faces. Participants’ eye movements were monitored while they viewed three-face displays. Target-present displays contained a studied face and two morphed faces that were visually similar to it; target-absent displays contained three morphed faces that were visually similar to a studied, but not tested, face. On each trial in a test session, participants were instructed to choose the studied face if it was present or a random face if it was not and then to indicate whether the chosen face was studied. Whereas manipulating visual similarity in target-absent displays influenced the rate of false endorsements of nonstudied items as studied, eye movements proved impervious to this manipulation. Studied faces were viewed disproportionately from 1,000 to 2,000 ms after display onset and from 1,000 to 500 ms before explicit identification. Early viewing also distinguished studied faces from faces incorrectly endorsed as studied. Our findings show that eye movements provide a relatively pure index of past experience that is uninfluenced by explicit response strategies, and suggest that eye movement measures may be of practical use in applied settings.

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“…For instance, when searching for a car when exiting a shopping mall, people presumably rely on both episodic memory and visual search. Several experiments have demonstrated that both implicit and explicit long-term memory can facilitate visual search (Chun, 2000; Summerfield et al, 2006; Becker and Rasmussen, 2008; Chanon and Hopfinger, 2008). Summerfield and colleagues (2006) found that visual search of complex scenes guided by recent experience is associated with activity in the hippocampus, a region known to be critical to episodic memory.…”

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Interactions between Visual Attention and Episodic Retrieval: Dissociable Contributions of Parietal Regions during Gist-Based False Recognition

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Robbins

Gilmore

et al. 2012

Neuron

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SUMMARY The interaction between episodic retrieval and visual attention is relatively unexplored. Given that systems mediating attention and episodic memory appear to be segregated, and perhaps even in competition, it is unclear how visual attention is recruited during episodic retrieval. We investigated the recruitment of visual attention during the suppression of gist-based false recognition, the tendency to falsely recognize items that are similar to previously encountered items. Recruitment of visual attention was associated with activity in the dorsal attention network. The inferior parietal lobule, often implicated in episodic retrieval, tracked veridical retrieval of perceptual detail and showed reduced activity during the engagement of visual attention, consistent with a competitive relationship with the dorsal attention network. These findings suggest that the contribution of the parietal cortex to interactions between visual attention and episodic retrieval entails distinct systems that contribute to different components of the task while also suppressing each other.

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Memory's grip on attention: The influence of item memory on the allocation of attention

Cited by 18 publications

References 42 publications

Incidental biasing of attention from visual long-term memory.

Incidental biasing of attention from visual long-term memory.

The Eyes Know

Interactions between Visual Attention and Episodic Retrieval: Dissociable Contributions of Parietal Regions during Gist-Based False Recognition

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