Visualizing trumps vision when training attention

Reinhart, Robert M. G.; McClenahan, Laura J.; Woodman, Geoffrey F.

doi:10.1167/15.12.1110

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“…As in recent studies (Reinhart, McClenahan, & Woodman, 2015;Reinhart & Woodman, 2014a), in most runs, subjects searched for a given object with the small level of reward or normal speed stress for the first four trials. In Experiment 1, the reward level than changed to large reward on 33% of the fifth trials and to medium reward on 33% of the fifth trials; on the other 33% of the fifth trials, the reward level remained low.…”

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Attention’s Accelerator

2016

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How do we get attention to operate at peak efficiency in high-pressure situations? Here we tested the hypothesis that the general mechanism that allows us to drive attentional selection at peak efficiency is the maintenance of multiple target representations in working and long-term memory. We recorded subjects’ event-related potentials (ERPs) indexing the working memory and long-term memory representations people used to control attention while performing visual search. We show that people used both types of memories to control attention when performing the visual search task with a large reward at stake, or when cued to go as fast as possible. However, under normal circumstances one type of target memory was sufficient for slower task performance. The use of multiple types of memory representations appears to provide converging top-down control of attention, allowing us to step on the attentional accelerator in a variety of high-pressure situations.

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confidence: 99%