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Journal Article
The Role of Working Memory in Visual Selective Attention
2001
Overview
The hypothesis that working memory is crucial for reducing distraction by maintaining the prioritization of relevant information was tested in neuroimaging and psychological experiments with humans. Participants performed a selective attention task that required them to ignore distractor faces while holding in working memory a sequence of digits that were in the same order (low memory load) or a different order (high memory load) on every trial. Higher memory load, associated with increased prefrontal activity, resulted in greater interference effects on behavioral performance from the distractor faces, plus increased face-related activity in the visual cortex. These findings confirm a major role for working memory in the control of visual selective attention.
Publisher
American Society for the Advancement of Science,American Association for the Advancement of Science,The American Association for the Advancement of Science
Subject
/ Anatomical correlates of behavior
/ Biological and medical sciences
/ Brain
/ Face
/ Female
/ Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
/ Humans
/ Imaging
/ Male
/ Memory
/ Memory, Short-Term - physiology
/ Prefrontal Cortex - physiology
/ Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
