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Oberauer, Klaus; Bialkova, Svetlana – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2011
Six young adults practiced for 36 sessions on a working-memory updating task in which 2 digits and 2 spatial positions were continuously updated. Participants either did 1 updating operation at a time, or attempted 1 numerical and 1 spatial operation at the same time. In contrast to previous research using the same paradigm with a single digit and…
Descriptors: Attention, Young Adults, Short Term Memory, Costs
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Eimer, Martin; Kiss, Monika; Nicholas, Susan – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2011
When target-defining features are specified in advance, attentional target selection in visual search is controlled by preparatory top-down task sets. We used ERP measures to study voluntary target selection in the absence of such feature-specific task sets, and to compare it to selection that is guided by advance knowledge about target features.…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Visual Stimuli, Attention, Task Analysis
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Leblanc, Emilie; Jolicoeur, Pierre – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2010
Previous research on the control of visuospatial attention showed that overlearned symbols like arrows have the potential to induce involuntary shifts of attention. Following work on the role of attentional control settings and of the content of working memory in the involuntary deployment of visuospatial attention, Pratt and Hommel (2003) found…
Descriptors: Proximity, Attention Control, Short Term Memory, Cues
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Umemoto, Akina; Scolari, Miranda; Vogel, Edward K.; Awh, Edward – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2010
Observers can voluntarily select which items are encoded into working memory, and the efficiency of this process strongly predicts memory capacity. Nevertheless, the present work suggests that voluntary intentions do not exclusively determine what is encoded into this online workspace. Observers indicated whether any items from a briefly stored…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Observation, Prediction, Cognitive Processes
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de Fockert, Jan W.; Mizon, Guy A.; D'Ubaldo, Mariangela – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2010
There is evidence that the efficiency of selective attention depends on the availability of cognitive control mechanisms as distractor processing has been found to increase with high load on working memory or dual task coordination (Lavie, Hirst, de Fockert, & Viding, 2004). We tested the prediction that cognitive control load would also…
Descriptors: Priming, Evidence, Attention Control, Short Term Memory