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Memory capacity in switching search strategies: Are low-capacity individuals more susceptible to capture by distractors?

Creator:

Thompson, Lane and Naylor, Jamie

Abstract:

Lien, Ruthruff, and Naylor (2014) recently reported that switching target search strategies (e.g., from identifying the letter that is uniquely colored [singleton search] to the letter that has a specific color [feature search] or vice versa) made the attentional system more vulnerable to capture by salient-but-irrelevant objects. In the present...

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Poster

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visual working memory capacity. References: Cowan, N. (2001). The magical number 4 in short-term