Obligatory encoding of task-irrelevant features depletes working memory resources
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Obligatory encoding of task-irrelevant features depletes working memory resources.
Selective attention is often considered the "gateway" to visual working memory (VWM). However, the extent to which we can voluntarily control which of an object's features enter memory remains subject to debate. Recent research has converged on the concept of VWM as a limited commodity distributed between elements of a visual scene. Consequently, as memory load increases, the fidelity with whic...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Vision
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1534-7362
DOI: 10.1167/12.9.853