What is it about?
Selective attention is the mechanism which allows efficient visual behaviour. The link between this process and visual memory is unclear. We show that selectively attended items are automatically encoded into the visual system.
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Why is it important?
Our findings help establish the link between internal and external representations of the visual world.
Perspectives
This article I hope will be useful for other visual cognition researchers and opens up questions on the spectrum of representations that is visual working memory.
Zachary Hamblin-Frohman
University of Toronto
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This page is a summary of: Selectively attended information is obligatorily encoded into visual working memory., Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, June 2025, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/xhp0001344.
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