Allen, RJ orcid.org/0000-0002-1887-3016, Baddeley, AD and Hitch, GJ (2017) Executive and perceptual distraction in visual working memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 43 (9). pp. 1677-1693. ISSN 0096-1523
Abstract
The contents of visual working memory are likely to reflect the influence of both executive control resources and information present in the environment. We investigated whether executive attention is critical in the ability to exclude unwanted stimuli by introducing concurrent potentially distracting irrelevant items to a visual working memory paradigm, and manipulating executive load using simple or more demanding secondary verbal tasks. Across seven experiments varying in presentation format, timing, stimulus set, and distractor number, we observed clear disruptive effects of executive load and visual distraction, but relatively minimal evidence supporting an interactive relationship between these factors. These findings are in line with recent evidence using delay-based interference, and suggest that different forms of attentional selection operate relatively independently in visual working memory.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 The Author(s). This article has been published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Copyright for this article is retained by the author(s). Author(s) grant(s) the American Psychological Association the exclusive right to publish the article and identify itself as the original publisher. |
Keywords: | attention; binding; distraction; visual working memory |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Medicine and Health (Leeds) > School of Psychology (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 21 Apr 2017 14:11 |
Last Modified: | 23 Jun 2023 22:27 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000413 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | American Psychological Association |
Identification Number: | 10.1037/xhp0000413 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:115253 |