The Focus of Attention in Visual Working Memory: Protection of Focused Representations and Its Individual Variation.

ABSTRACT: Visual working memory can be modulated according to changes in the cued task relevance of maintained items. Here, we investigated the mechanisms underlying this modulation. In particular, we studied the consequences of attentional selection for selected and unselected items, and the role of individual differences in the efficiency with which attention is deployed. To this end, performance in a visual working memory task as well as the CDA/SPCN and the N2pc, ERP components associated with visual working memory and attentional processes, were analysed. Selection during the maintenance stage was manipulated by means of two successively presented retrocues providing spatial information as to which items were most likely to be tested. Results show that attentional selection serves to robustly p

SUBMITTER: Heuer A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4839725 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature