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Record W4402912254 · doi:10.1167/jov.24.10.350

Attentional Selection is the Gatekeeper to VWM

2024· article· en· W4402912254 on OpenAlexaff
Zachary Hamblin-Frohman, Jay Pratt

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Vision · 2024
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldNeuroscience
TopicNeural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSelection (genetic algorithm)Cognitive psychologyPsychologyComputer scienceArtificial intelligence

Abstract

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Visual attention and visual working memory (VWM) are intertwined processes that allow navigation of the visual world. These systems can compete for highly limited cognitive resources, creating interference effects when both operate in tandem. Previous research has shown that selectively attending, compared to non-selectively attending, an item causes obligatory interference with concurrently maintained VWM information. This finding may reflect that selectively attended items are automatically encoded into VWM. The current study examines this proposal by utilizing the procedures of the memory-driven capture paradigm. If an item is stored in VWM, then attention is captured by feature-matching items in subsequent tasks, and importantly even if they are distractors. On Trial 1, participants searched for a diamond shape with a varying colour. The target diamond was presented either alone (non-selectively attended condition) or among differently coloured non-targets (selectively attended). On Trial 2, the diamond-target and non-targets were the same colour, and one of the non-targets now had a singleton colour. This distractor colour could either match the colour of the diamond target from Trial 1 or was a novel colour. If a selectively attended item is automatically encoded into VWM, then it the feature-matching distractor capture on Trial 2 (measured via Eye-movements and RTs) should be higher for the selectively attended colour (Trial 1). This capture should also be above and beyond the effects of feature priming from the non-selectively attended Trial 1 colour. The results support this finding, the difference between matching and novel distractor colours are larger for the selectively attended condition compared to the non-selective attention condition. This study displays the effects of memory-driven capture in a task where participants were never required to encode stimuli into VWM and suggests that selective attention leads to obligatory VWM encoding.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.007
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.002
Threshold uncertainty score0.006

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.007
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.112
GPT teacher head0.431
Teacher spread0.319 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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