Visual working-memory capacity load does not modulate distractor processing

被引:10
作者
Yao, Nailang [1 ]
Guo, Yang [1 ]
Liu, Yang [1 ]
Shen, Mowei [1 ]
Gao, Zaifeng [1 ]
机构
[1] Zhejiang Univ, Dept Psychol & Behav Sci, Xixi Campus, Hangzhou 310007, Peoples R China
基金
国家重点研发计划;
关键词
Visual working memory; Selective attention; Distractor processing; OBJECT-BASED ATTENTION; SHORT-TERM-MEMORY; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; PERCEPTUAL LOAD; NEURAL MECHANISMS; SPATIAL FOCUS; SEARCH; CORTEX; REPRESENTATIONS; PSYCHOPHYSICS;
D O I
10.3758/s13414-020-01991-7
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
Over the last decade, researchers have explored the influence of visual working-memory (WM) load on selective attention in general, by focusing on the modulation of visual WM load on distractor processing in perception. However, there were three distinct hypotheses (perceptual-load hypothesis, resolution hypothesis, and domain-specific hypothesis) with different predictions. While the perceptual-load hypothesis suggests that visual WM capacity load serves as a type of perceptual load, the latter two hypotheses consider visual WM capacity load acting as a type of central executive load, with a constraint that the domain-specific hypothesis claimed that only a content overlap existed between WM load and the perceptual task. By adding a flanker task into the maintenance phase of visual WM, here we attempted to understand the influence of visual WM load on distractor processing. We systematically manipulated the parameters of the task setting between WM and flanker tasks (Experiments1-4), the perceptual load of flanker task (Experiment5), the settings of the flanker stimuli and the WM load (Experiment6), and the content overlap between WM task and flanker task and the exposure time of flanker task (Experiments7,8, and9). However, in 11 out of 12 sub-experiments we consistently found that the visual WM load did not modulate the distractor processing. The implications of these findings are discussed.
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页码:3291 / 3313
页数:23
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