Visual Attention and Working Memory: Are Low Memory Capacity Individuals More Easily Distracted?

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Creator	Naylor, Jamie Williams, Reginald Lien, Mei-Ching
Abstract	Visual working memory (VWM) allows us temporarily hold images in our minds and manipulate them. As an example, you can remember a face you just saw, or try to imagine how a room would look with a different arrangement of furniture. Previous studies have shown that individuals with low VWM capacity (able to remember only a few visual items) are much more susceptible to distraction than high VWM individuals (e.g., Poole & Kane, 2009). Nevertheless, it is unclear whether their inability to avoid distraction occurs because their spatial attention is easily captured by distractions (the capture hypothesis) or because they have difficulty disengaging attention from distractions (the disengagement hypothesis). The present study tested between these two hypotheses.
Resource Type	Poster
Date Available	2014-06-09T14:02:34+00:00
Date Issued	2014-06-09
Degree Level	Bachelor's
Degree Name	Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
Advisor	Lien, Mei-Ching
Conference Name	Celebration of Undergraduate Excellence
Conference Location	Corvallis, Oregon, USA
Academic Affiliation	Psychological Sciences
Non-Academic Affiliation	Oregon State University. Celebration of Undergraduate Excellence
Rights Statement	In Copyright
Publisher	Oregon State University
Peer Reviewed	No
Language	English [eng]
Replaces	http://hdl.handle.net/1957/48848
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