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SUBMITTER: Beck VM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3419335 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Beck Valerie M VM Hollingworth Andrew A Luck Steven J SJ
Psychological science 20120703 8
Working memory representations play a key role in controlling attention by making it possible to shift attention to task-relevant objects. Visual working memory has a capacity of three to four objects, but recent studies suggest that only one representation can guide attention at a given moment. We directly tested this proposal by monitoring eye movements while observers performed a visual search task in which they attempted to limit attention to objects drawn in two colors. When the observers w ...[more]