The Role of Attention on the Information Maintenance in Visuo-Spatial Working Memory
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Working memory, Retrocue, Attention, VisuospatialAbstract
The study of the visual working memory still presents several issues poorly understood. The present study aimed to investigate the efficiency of attentive retrocues in the process of maintenance of visuospatial information in working memory. For that, two experiments defined by a task of memorization and retrieval of visuospatial information with the aid of retrocue were conducted. The results suggest that the effect of the valid retrocue provided better accuracy in recovering the visuospatial information on the presence or absence of a visual search task. This result is discussed in terms of the existence of multiple attentional components in the visual working memory.
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