The Association between Visual Attention and Memory
A special issue of Behavioral Sciences (ISSN 2076-328X). This special issue belongs to the section "Cognition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 3241
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Working memory enables the short-term storage of information no longer available to the senses from the external world. Simple measures of this cognitive process correlate reliably and accurately with measures of cognitive ability. For this reason, working memory is central to many neuropsychological batteries measuring intelligence and diagnosing cognitive impairment.
It is evident that selective attention is critical for the initial encoding of information into working memory. More recently, however, research has focused on questions related to how attention can prioritize the items already stored in memory, ignore distraction or update the contents of memory. While these functions of attention are crucial for maintaining remembered items, it is debated to what extent these forms of attention overlap. This Special Issue will focus on ways in which these forms of attention can be independently investigated to help illuminate the contributions of attention to working memory performance.
Dr. Summer Sheremata
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- working memory
- visual attention
- executive attention
- retro-cue
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