Does superior visual working memory capacity enable greater distractor suppression?

IF 1.7 4区心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL

VISUAL COGNITION Pub Date : 2022-09-14 DOI:10.1080/13506285.2022.2145403

Christopher Hauck, M. Lien, E. Ruthruff

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Abstract

ABSTRACT We asked whether individuals high in working memory capacity have a superior ability to proactively suppress features. If so, it would help explain why these individuals are more resistant to attention capture. We tested this hypothesis using the capture-probe paradigm employed in Lien et al. (2022. On preventing attention capture: Is singleton suppression actually singleton suppression? Psychological Research, 86(6), 1958–1971). Participants (N = 112) performed a colour change detection task, assessing visual working memory capacity. They then performed a visual search task (70% of the trials) intermixed with probe tasks (30% of the trials). For the visual search task, either a salient colour singleton distractor or non-salient distractor (a triplet) appeared with the target object. For the probe recall task, participants reported probe letters that briefly appeared inside each object. Replicating Lien et al., a suppression effect on probe recall accuracy was observed for both salient singletons and non-salient triplets. Critically, high and low visual working memory capacity individuals showed statistically equivalent ability to suppress colour distractors. These findings suggest that proactive suppression is not the mechanism by which high-capacity individuals achieve greater resistance to capture. Proactive suppression may be an implicit process that does not require special working memory capabilities.

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卓越的视觉工作记忆能力是否能更好地抑制干扰？

摘要:我们研究工作记忆容量高的个体是否具有更强的主动抑制特征的能力。如果是这样，这将有助于解释为什么这些人对注意力吸引更有抵抗力。我们使用Lien等人(2022)采用的捕获-探针范式检验了这一假设。关于防止注意力捕获:单例抑制真的是单例抑制吗?心理研究，86(6)，1958-1971。参与者(N = 112)执行颜色变化检测任务，评估视觉工作记忆容量。然后他们执行视觉搜索任务(70%的试验)和探测任务(30%的试验)。在视觉搜索任务中，一个显著的单一颜色分心物或一个非显著的分心物(三组)与目标物体一起出现。对于探针回忆任务，参与者报告在每个物体中短暂出现的探针字母。重复Lien等人的研究，在显著单子和非显著三子中都观察到探针回忆准确性的抑制效应。重要的是，高和低视觉工作记忆能力的个体在统计上显示出相同的抑制颜色干扰的能力。这些发现表明，主动抑制并不是高能力个体获得更大抵抗捕获的机制。主动抑制可能是一种不需要特殊工作记忆能力的内隐过程。

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VISUAL COGNITION PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL-

CiteScore

4.20

自引率

10.00%

发文量

期刊介绍： Visual Cognition publishes new empirical research that increases theoretical understanding of human visual cognition. Studies may be concerned with any aspect of visual cognition such as object, face, and scene recognition; visual attention and search; short-term and long-term visual memory; visual word recognition and reading; eye movement control and active vision; and visual imagery. The journal is devoted to research at the interface of visual perception and cognition and does not typically publish papers in areas of perception or psychophysics that are covered by the many publication outlets for those topics.