- The Oxford Handbook of Attention
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- Guides to the Study of Attention
- Approaches to Visual Search: Feature Integration Theory and Guided Search
- Load Theory of Attention and Cognitive Control
- A Multi-level Account of Selective Attention
- Large-scale Networks for Attentional Biases
- Dynamic Brain States for Preparatory Attention and Working Memory
- Spatial Covert Attention: Perceptual Modulation
- Spatial Orienting and Attentional Capture
- Neural Systems for Spatial Attention in the Human Brain: Evidence from Neuroimaging in the Framework of Biased Competition
- The Time Course of Spatial Attention: Insights from Event-Related Brain Potentials
- Neuronal Mechanisms of Spatial Attention in Visual Cerebral Cortex
- Neuronal Mechanisms of Attentional Control: Parietal Cortex
- Neuronal Mechanisms of Attentional Control: Frontal Cortex
- Neural Mechanisms of Spatial Attention in the Visual Thalamus
- Attentional Functions of the Superior Colliculus
- Orienting Attention: A Crossmodal Perspective
- Neuronal Dynamics and the Mechanistic Bases of Selective Attention
- The Neuropsycho–Pharmacology of Attention
- Developing Attention and Self-Regulation in Childhood
- Feature- and Object-Based Attentional Modulation in the Human Visual System
- Object- and Feature-Based Attention: Monkey Physiology
- The Role of Brain Oscillations in the Temporal Limits of Attention
- Dynamic Attention
- Time for the Fourth Dimension in Attention
- Attention, Motivation, and Emotion
- Working Memory Biases in Human Vision
- Neural Mechanisms for the Executive Control of Attention
- Memory and Attention
- Attention and Decision-Making
- Attention and Action
- Developmental Disorders: A Window onto Attention Dynamics
- Attention and Ageing
- Unilateral Spatial Neglect
- Neurological Disorders of Attention
- Balint’s Syndrome and the Study of Attention
- Rehabilitation of Attention Functions
- Theory of Visual Attention (TVA)
- Computational Models: Bottom-Up and Top-Down Aspects
- Bayesian Models of Attention
- Attention: Time Capsule 2013
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
The current conceptualization of working memory highlights its pivotal role in the cognitive control of goal-directed behaviour, for example, by keeping task-priorities and relevant information ‘online’. Evidence has accumulated, however, that working memory contents can automatically misdirect attention and observers can only exert little intentional control to overcome irrelevant contents held in memory that are known to be misleading for behaviour. The authors discuss extant evidence on this topic and argue that obligatory functional coupling between working memory and attentional selection reflects a default property of the brain which is hardwired in overlapping substrates for memory and perception. They further argue that the neuroanatomical substrates for working memory biases in vision are distinct from the classical fronto-parietal networks involved in attentional control and distinct from the mechanisms that mediate attention biases from long-term memory. Finally the authors present emerging evidence that working memory ‘guiding’ processes may operate outside conscious awareness.
Keywords: working memory, attention, perception, awareness, vision
David Soto, Imperial College London, Division of Brain Sciences, Charing Cross Hospital
Glyn W. Humphreys, University of Oxford, Department of Experimental Psychology
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- The Oxford Handbook of Attention
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- Guides to the Study of Attention
- Approaches to Visual Search: Feature Integration Theory and Guided Search
- Load Theory of Attention and Cognitive Control
- A Multi-level Account of Selective Attention
- Large-scale Networks for Attentional Biases
- Dynamic Brain States for Preparatory Attention and Working Memory
- Spatial Covert Attention: Perceptual Modulation
- Spatial Orienting and Attentional Capture
- Neural Systems for Spatial Attention in the Human Brain: Evidence from Neuroimaging in the Framework of Biased Competition
- The Time Course of Spatial Attention: Insights from Event-Related Brain Potentials
- Neuronal Mechanisms of Spatial Attention in Visual Cerebral Cortex
- Neuronal Mechanisms of Attentional Control: Parietal Cortex
- Neuronal Mechanisms of Attentional Control: Frontal Cortex
- Neural Mechanisms of Spatial Attention in the Visual Thalamus
- Attentional Functions of the Superior Colliculus
- Orienting Attention: A Crossmodal Perspective
- Neuronal Dynamics and the Mechanistic Bases of Selective Attention
- The Neuropsycho–Pharmacology of Attention
- Developing Attention and Self-Regulation in Childhood
- Feature- and Object-Based Attentional Modulation in the Human Visual System
- Object- and Feature-Based Attention: Monkey Physiology
- The Role of Brain Oscillations in the Temporal Limits of Attention
- Dynamic Attention
- Time for the Fourth Dimension in Attention
- Attention, Motivation, and Emotion
- Working Memory Biases in Human Vision
- Neural Mechanisms for the Executive Control of Attention
- Memory and Attention
- Attention and Decision-Making
- Attention and Action
- Developmental Disorders: A Window onto Attention Dynamics
- Attention and Ageing
- Unilateral Spatial Neglect
- Neurological Disorders of Attention
- Balint’s Syndrome and the Study of Attention
- Rehabilitation of Attention Functions
- Theory of Visual Attention (TVA)
- Computational Models: Bottom-Up and Top-Down Aspects
- Bayesian Models of Attention
- Attention: Time Capsule 2013
- Index