Psychological Development and Education ›› 2022, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (5): 609-617.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2022.05.01

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The Attentional Guidance Effect of Visual and Verbal Working Memory Representation

SONG Jiaru1, LIU Yuanyuan2, WANG Xiuli1, LI Shouxin1   

  1. 1. School of Psychology, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014;
    2. Weifang Industrial School, Weifang 261300
  • Published:2022-09-14

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Abstract: Three experiments were conducted to explore the different attentional guidance effects from visual and verbal working memory (WM) representation in different stimulus-onset asynchrony (SOA) conditions. In Experiment 1, we explored how the effect of verbal WM on visual attention were influenced by SOA when the visual guidance task and visual detection task were presented simultaneously. The results showed when the SOA was 300ms and 1000ms, the attentional guidance effect of verbal WM was observed, while when the SOA was 3500ms, the attentional guidance effect wasn't observed. In Experiment 2 and 3, we explored how the effects of verbal WM and visual WM on visual attention were influenced by SOA when the visual guidance task and visual detection task were presented seguentially. The results showed the attentional guidance effect was observed in all WM representation and SOA conditions. These results indicate that the effect of verbal WM representation on attentional guidance is influenced by task paradigm. Attentional guidance effect can be observed from visual WM representation under more widely conditions than verbal WM representation.

Key words: visual working memory representation, verbal working memory representation, visual attention, attentional guidance

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  • B844
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