Working-Memory-Guided Attention Competes with Exogenous Attention but Not with Endogenous Attention

Zhu, Ping; Yang, Qingqing; Chen, Luo; Guan, Chenxiao; Zhou, Jifan; Shen, Mowei; Chen, Hui

doi:10.3390/bs13050426

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Working-Memory-Guided Attention Competes with Exogenous Attention but Not with Endogenous Attention

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Ping Zhu

^1,†,

Qingqing Yang

^2,†,

Luo Chen

¹,

Chenxiao Guan

¹,

Jifan Zhou

¹,

Mowei Shen

^1,* and

Hui Chen

^1,*

¹

Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310030, China

²

Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA

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Authors to whom correspondence should be addressed.

^†

These authors contributed equally to this work.

Behav. Sci. 2023, 13(5), 426; https://doi.org/10.3390/bs13050426

Submission received: 16 April 2023 / Revised: 9 May 2023 / Accepted: 16 May 2023 / Published: 18 May 2023

(This article belongs to the Section Cognition)

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Recent research has extensively investigated working memory (WM)-guided attention, which is the phenomenon of attention being directed towards information in the external environment that matches the content stored in WM. While prior studies have focused on the potential influencing factors of WM-guided attention, little is known about the nature of it. This attention system exhibits characteristics of two classical distinct attention systems: exogenous attention and endogenous attention, as it can operate automatically like exogenous attention yet persist for a long time and be modulated by cognitive resources like endogenous attention. Thus, the current study aimed to explore the mechanism of WM-guided attention by testing whether it competed with exogenous attention, endogenous attention, or both. Two experiments were conducted within a classic WM-guided attention paradigm. Experiment 1 included an exogenous cue and revealed an interaction between WM-guided attention and exogenous attention. Experiment 2 replaced the exogenous cue with an endogenous cue and demonstrated that endogenous attention had no impact on WM-guided attention. These findings indicate that WM-guided attention shares mechanisms with exogenous attention to some extent while operating in parallel with endogenous attention.

Keywords: working-memory-guided attention; exogenous attention; endogenous attention

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Zhu, P.; Yang, Q.; Chen, L.; Guan, C.; Zhou, J.; Shen, M.; Chen, H. Working-Memory-Guided Attention Competes with Exogenous Attention but Not with Endogenous Attention. Behav. Sci. 2023, 13, 426. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs13050426

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Zhu P, Yang Q, Chen L, Guan C, Zhou J, Shen M, Chen H. Working-Memory-Guided Attention Competes with Exogenous Attention but Not with Endogenous Attention. Behavioral Sciences. 2023; 13(5):426. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs13050426

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Zhu, Ping, Qingqing Yang, Luo Chen, Chenxiao Guan, Jifan Zhou, Mowei Shen, and Hui Chen. 2023. "Working-Memory-Guided Attention Competes with Exogenous Attention but Not with Endogenous Attention" Behavioral Sciences 13, no. 5: 426. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs13050426

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Zhu, P., Yang, Q., Chen, L., Guan, C., Zhou, J., Shen, M., & Chen, H. (2023). Working-Memory-Guided Attention Competes with Exogenous Attention but Not with Endogenous Attention. Behavioral Sciences, 13(5), 426. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs13050426

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