Attention can operate on object representations in visual sensory memory

Xie, Tong; Nan, Weizhi; Fu, Shimin

doi:10.3758/s13414-021-02323-z

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“…Notably, our conclusion was opposed to the results of Yan et al ( 2022 ), who reported the OBA effect when the eyes with direct eye gaze overlapped on cups (Yan et al, 2022 ). However, it is worth noting that in this study, the cup itself was also an object that was expected to elicit the OBA effect.…”

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“…In the double-rectangle paradigm, several studies found a significant OBA effect in faces (Hu et al, 2021 ; Song et al, 2021 ; Yan et al, 2022 ). These studies posited that faces, being real-world objects with inherent object properties, naturally elicit OBA effects.…”

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“…In these studies, the two rectangles were replaced by two human faces and the OBA effect was measured by the difference between the within and between conditions. However, these studies encountered challenges in reliably demonstrating the OBA effect with human faces (e.g., Valenza & Calignano, 2021 ; Valenza et al, 2014 ; Xie et al, 2022 ; but see Hu et al, 2021 ; Song et al, 2021 ; Yan et al, 2022 ).…”

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“…Since the OBA effect has been widely replicated in real-world objects (e.g., Malcolm & Shomstein, 2015 ; Zhao et al, 2020 ), as a kind of real-world object featuring general object properties, faces are justified in eliciting the OBA effect (Hu et al, 2021 ; Song et al, 2021 ). From a more basic perspective, Yan et al ( 2022 ) suggested that faces containing direct eye gaze would capture attention and result in faster RTs in the within condition, which leads to the OBA effect in faces (Yan et al, 2022 ).…”

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Faces do not guide attention in an object-based facilitation manner

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Mento

2023

Atten Percept Psychophys

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Numerous studies on face processing have revealed their special ability to affect attention, but relatively little research has been done on how faces guide spatial attention allocation. To enrich this field, this study resorted to the object-based attention (OBA) effect in a modified double-rectangle paradigm where the rectangles were replaced with human faces and mosaic patterns (non-face objects). Experiment 1 replicated the typical OBA effect in the non-face objects, but this effect was absent in Asian and Caucasian faces. Experiment 2 removed the eye region from Asian faces, but still found no object-based facilitation in the faces without eyes. In Experiment 3, the OBA effect was also observed for faces when the faces disappear a short period before the responses. Overall, these results revealed that when two faces are presented together, they do not exert object-based facilitation regardless of their facial features such as race and the presence of eyes. We argue that the lack of a typical OBA effect is due to the filtering cost induced by the entire face content. This cost slows down the response when attention shifts within a face and results in the absence of object-based facilitation.

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Faces do not guide attention in an object-based facilitation manner

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2023

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“…For empirical support to this claim in the context of short-term visual memory, seeXie et al (2021). For discussion of inattentive remembering and the type of case we discuss, seeMartin (1992, p. 748);Lackey (2005, p. 650);Bernecker (2010, p. 86).32 Mole advocates the "epistemic deficit" view, on which we will not further elaborate here.…”

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Immunity to error through misidentification in observer memories: A moderate separatist account

Perrin

McCarroll

2021

Philos Phenomenol Research

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Judgments based on episodic memory are often thought to be immune to errors of misidentification (IEM). Yet there is a certain category of episodic memories, viz. observer memories, that seems to threaten IEM. In the resulting debate, some say that observer memories are a threat to the IEM enjoyed by episodic memory (Michaelian, 2021); others say that they pose no such threat (Fernández, 2021;Lin, 2020). In this paper, we argue for a middle way. First, we frame the debate, claiming that the existing literature lacks a satisfying definition both of observer memories and of the precise issue of errors of identification in such memories. Then, we contribute to the debate by challenging an antiseparatist view about the relation between phenomenal and intentional features of observer memories that looms behind this debate. On this view, if the rememberer's self is a phenomenal feature of the memory, by implication it is also built into the intentional content. We reject this view and offer a moderate separatist account. Distinguishing between empirically-grounded species of observer memories, we say that the phenomenal self sometimes is, and sometimes is not built into the intentional content of the memory, and this results in different implications for IEM.

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Auditory change detection and visual selective attention: association between MMN and N2pc

Kong,

Zhao,

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Cerebral Cortex

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While the auditory and visual systems each provide distinct information to our brain, they also work together to process and prioritize input to address ever-changing conditions. Previous studies highlighted the trade-off between auditory change detection and visual selective attention; however, the relationship between them is still unclear. Here, we recorded electroencephalography signals from 106 healthy adults in three experiments. Our findings revealed a positive correlation at the population level between the amplitudes of event-related potential indices associated with auditory change detection (mismatch negativity) and visual selective attention (posterior contralateral N2) when elicited in separate tasks. This correlation persisted even when participants performed a visual task while disregarding simultaneous auditory stimuli. Interestingly, as visual attention demand increased, participants whose posterior contralateral N2 amplitude increased the most exhibited the largest reduction in mismatch negativity, suggesting a within-subject trade-off between the two processes. Taken together, our results suggest an intimate relationship and potential shared mechanism between auditory change detection and visual selective attention. We liken this to a total capacity limit that varies between individuals, which could drive correlated individual differences in auditory change detection and visual selective attention, and also within-subject competition between the two, with task-based modulation of visual attention causing within-participant decrease in auditory change detection sensitivity.

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Attention can operate on object representations in visual sensory memory

Cited by 5 publications

References 77 publications

Faces do not guide attention in an object-based facilitation manner

Faces do not guide attention in an object-based facilitation manner

Immunity to error through misidentification in observer memories: A moderate separatist account

Auditory change detection and visual selective attention: association between MMN and N2pc

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