title: Visual working memory modulates rapid eye movements to simple onset targets.
abstract: Representations in visual working memory (VWM) influence attention and gaze control in complex tasks, such as visual search, that require top-down selection to resolve stimulus competition. VWM and visual attention clearly interact, but the mechanism of that interaction is not well understood. In the research reported here, we demonstrated that in the absence of stimulus competition or goal-level biases, VWM representations of object features influence the spatiotemporal dynamics of extremely simple eye movements. The influence of VWM therefore extends into the most basic operations of the oculomotor system.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242-1407, USA. andrew-hollingworth@uiowa.edu
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hollingworth
authors.forename: Michi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Matsukura
authors.forename: Steven J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Luck
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology; D003463:Cues; D006801:Humans; D008570:Memory, Short-Term / Q000502:physiology*; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D010775:Photic Stimulation / Q000379:methods; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology; D012895:Sleep, REM / Q000502:physiology*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: eye movements; visual attention; visual memory; visual perception