Working-Memory-Guided Attention Competes with Exogenous Attention but Not with Endogenous Attention
<p>The task procedure of experiment 1. The participants were instructed to memorize the color of the memory item and complete a color change-detection task at the end of the trial. During the memory retention period, an exogenous cue was presented with 25% validity and then, the participants were required to indicate the direction of the tilted line. One of the distractors could share the same color with the memory item (match), or not (mismatch).</p> "> Figure 2
<p>The search RT results of two WM-Search Match conditions in two exogenous cue validity conditions in Experiment 1. Error bars represent the standard error of the mean (SEM). *** <span class="html-italic">p</span> < 0.001. <span class="html-italic">n.s.</span> = not significant.</p> "> Figure 3
<p>The task procedure of experiment 2. The participants were instructed to memorize the color of the memory item and complete a color-change-detection task at the end of the trial. During the memory retention period, an endogenous cue was presented with 75% validity, and the numbers 1 to 4 corresponded to the left top, right top, left bottom, and right bottom quadrant, respectively. Then, participants were required to indicate the direction of the tilted line. One of the distractors could share the same color with the memory item (match) or not (mismatch).</p> "> Figure 4
<p>The search RT results of two WM-Search Match conditions in two endogenous cue validity conditions in Experiment 2. Error bars represent SEM. * <span class="html-italic">p</span> < 0.05, *** <span class="html-italic">p</span> < 0.001. <span class="html-italic">n.s.</span> = not significant.</p> "> Figure 5
<p>The search RT results of each condition in Experiments 1 and 2. Error bars represent SEM. * <span class="html-italic">p</span> < 0.05, *** <span class="html-italic">p</span> < 0.001. <span class="html-italic">n.s</span>. = not significant.</p> ">
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Experiment 1
2.1. Method
2.1.1. Participants
2.1.2. Apparatus and Stimuli
2.1.3. Procedures and Design
2.1.4. Data Analysis
2.2. Results
3. Experiment 2
3.1. Method
3.1.1. Participants
3.1.2. Procedures and Design
3.2. Results
4. Discussion
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Zhu, P.; Yang, Q.; Chen, L.; Guan, C.; Zhou, J.; Shen, M.; Chen, H. Working-Memory-Guided Attention Competes with Exogenous Attention but Not with Endogenous Attention. Behav. Sci. 2023, 13, 426. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs13050426
Zhu P, Yang Q, Chen L, Guan C, Zhou J, Shen M, Chen H. Working-Memory-Guided Attention Competes with Exogenous Attention but Not with Endogenous Attention. Behavioral Sciences. 2023; 13(5):426. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs13050426
Chicago/Turabian StyleZhu, Ping, Qingqing Yang, Luo Chen, Chenxiao Guan, Jifan Zhou, Mowei Shen, and Hui Chen. 2023. "Working-Memory-Guided Attention Competes with Exogenous Attention but Not with Endogenous Attention" Behavioral Sciences 13, no. 5: 426. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs13050426