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The Effects Of Long-Term Memory Prioritization On Attention During Visual Search, Joshua Hoelter
The Effects Of Long-Term Memory Prioritization On Attention During Visual Search, Joshua Hoelter
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Attention has traditionally been divided into a dichotomy, however mounting evidence suggests a third attention process is at work, one that shows attention capture because of previous experiences with a stimulus, not its physical properties. In line with this, items that have been paired with a rewarding or aversive outcome, items held in working memory, and items incidentally retrieved from long term memory have all been shown to capture attention in an obligatory fashion similar to bottom-up attentional processes. More recent work into how items in working memory capture attention, has demonstrated that items can attain a special status that …