New Templates Interfere With Existing Templates Depending on Their Respective Priority in Visual Working Memory

被引:9
作者
Cong, Stanislas Huynh [1 ]
Kerzel, Dirk [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Geneva, Fac Psychol & Educ Sci, 40 Blvd Pont dArve, CH-1205 Geneva, Switzerland
基金
瑞士国家科学基金会;
关键词
visual search; attentional template; top-down control; visual working memory; retroactive interference; ATTENTIONAL CONTROL SETTINGS; SHORT-TERM-MEMORY; CONTINGENT CAPTURE; RETROACTIVE INTERFERENCE; INDIVIDUAL-DIFFERENCES; TARGET SELECTION; NEURAL ACTIVITY; SINGLE-COLOR; MULTIPLE; SEARCH;
D O I
10.1037/xhp0000859
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
Attentional templates are stored representations of target features that guide visual search. While transiently active templates are as efficient as templates held in a sustained fashion, their simultaneous activation generates costs for the sustained template. Here, we investigated whether the quality of the memory representation determines these costs. Two possible target colors were cued before search display onset. In blocked conditions, the 2 colors either changed on every trial or were fixed throughout. In the mixed condition, 1 color was fixed, while the other varied from trial to trial. In Experiment 1, participants also reproduced 1 of the 2 target colors on a memory wheel after each search episode. The analysis of search performance replicated longer reaction times (RTs) to sustained than transient targets when template types were mixed, but no difference when they were blocked. Critically, analysis of memory judgments showed that random guesses for sustained templates increased from the blocked to the mixed condition, mirroring RTs. This suggests that newly activated transient templates retroactively interfered with already activated sustained templates, impairing their efficiency to guide attention and their stability in memory. Increasing the priority of sustained templates through maintenance constraints (Experiments 1 vs. 2) or retro-cueing (Experiment 3) reduced the associated costs. Finally, these costs were unaffected by different retention intervals (Experiment 4). We argue that retroactive interference affects the control of visual search and memory maintenance alike, but critically depends on the respective priority of representations in visual working memory.
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页码:1313 / 1327
页数:15
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