Behind the scenes: how visual memory load biases selective attention during processing of visual streams
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- Peter Klaver and Durk Talsma (UGent)
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- We recorded ERPs to investigate whether the visual memory load can bias visual selective attention. Participants memorized one or four letters and then responded to memory-matching letters presented in a relevant color while ignoring distractor letters or letters in an irrelevant color. Stimuli in the relevant color elicited larger frontal selection positivities (FSP) and occipital selection negativities (OSN) compared to irrelevant color stimuli. Only distractors elicited a larger FSP in the high than in the low memory load task. Memory load prolonged the OSN for all letters. Response mapping complexity was also modulated but did not affect the FSP and OSN. Together, the FSP data suggest that high memory load increased distractability. The OSN data suggest that memory load sustained attention to letters in a relevant color until working memory processing was completed, independently of whether the letters were in working memory or not.
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- EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, EEG/ERP, SHORT-TERM-MEMORY, TOP-DOWN MODULATION, WORKING-MEMORY, ALPHANUMERIC CHARACTERS, HUMAN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY, INDIVIDUAL-DIFFERENCES, CAPTURE ATTENTION, PREFRONTAL CORTEX, COGNITIVE CONTROL, Contingent capture, Working memory, Attention
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-5661570
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- Klaver, Peter, and Durk Talsma. “Behind the Scenes: How Visual Memory Load Biases Selective Attention during Processing of Visual Streams.” PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY, vol. 50, no. 11, 2013, pp. 1133–46, doi:10.1111/psyp.12126.
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- Klaver, P., & Talsma, D. (2013). Behind the scenes: how visual memory load biases selective attention during processing of visual streams. PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY, 50(11), 1133–1146. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.12126
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- Klaver, Peter, and Durk Talsma. 2013. “Behind the Scenes: How Visual Memory Load Biases Selective Attention during Processing of Visual Streams.” PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY 50 (11): 1133–46. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.12126.
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- Klaver, Peter, and Durk Talsma. 2013. “Behind the Scenes: How Visual Memory Load Biases Selective Attention during Processing of Visual Streams.” PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY 50 (11): 1133–1146. doi:10.1111/psyp.12126.
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- 1.Klaver P, Talsma D. Behind the scenes: how visual memory load biases selective attention during processing of visual streams. PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY. 2013;50(11):1133–46.
- IEEE
- [1]P. Klaver and D. Talsma, “Behind the scenes: how visual memory load biases selective attention during processing of visual streams,” PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY, vol. 50, no. 11, pp. 1133–1146, 2013.
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