“…While automatic reinstatement of object attributes in VWM may make visual search more efficient, automatic reinstatement is unlikely to be a search-specific mechanism. Rather, it is consistent with previous studies from the memory literature showing that irrelevant object attributes are automatically recalled (Bornstein & Norman, 2017;Ecker, Maybery, & Zimmer, 2013;Geukes, Vorberg, & Zwitserlood, 2019;Hoskin, Bornstein, Norman, & Cohen, 2019;Hyun, Woodman, Vogel, Hollingworth, & Luck, 2009;Shen, Tang, Wu, Shui, & Gao, 2013;Yin et al, 2012). For instance, Ecker et al (2013) askedparticipants to store geometrical shapes in VWM.…”