The (Un)Clear Effects of Invalid Retro-Cues

Invalid retro-cues can eliminate the retro-cue benefit: Evidence for a hybridized account.

The contents of visual working memory (VWM) are capacity limited and require frequent updating. The retrospective cueing (retro-cueing) paradigm clarifies how directing internal attention among VWM items boosts VWM performance. In this paradigm a cue appears prior to retrieval, but after encoding and maintenance. The retro-cue effect (RCE) refers to superior VWM after valid versus neutral retro...

Erratum to: The reliability of retro-cues determines the fate of noncued visual working memory representations.

Retrospectively cueing an item retained in visual working memory during maintenance is known to improve its retention. However, studies have provided conflicting results regarding the costs of such retro-cues for the noncued items, leading to different theories on the mechanisms behind visual working memory maintenance and retro-cueing. Here we tested an alternative explanation of the conflicti...

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance Invalid Retro-Cues Can Eliminate the Retro-Cue Benefit: Evidence for a Hybridized Account

The effects of sequential attention shifts within visual working memory

Previous studies have shown conflicting data as to whether it is possible to sequentially shift spatial attention among visual working memory (VWM) representations. The present study investigated this issue by asynchronously presenting attentional cues during the retention interval of a change detection task. In particular, we focused on two types of sequential attention shifts: (1) orienting a...

Orienting attention to locations in internal representations.

Three experiments investigated whether it is possible to orient selective spatial attention to internal representations held in working memory in a similar fashion to orienting to perceptual stimuli. In the first experiment, subjects were either cued to orient to a spatial location before a stimulus array was presented (pre-cue), cued to orient to a spatial location in working memory after the ...