#3239. Perceptual distraction causes visual memory encoding intrusions

October 2026publication date
Proposal available till 29-05-2025
4 total number of authors per manuscript0 $

The title of the journal is available only for the authors who have already paid for
Journal’s subject area:
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous);
Developmental and Educational Psychology;
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology;
Places in the authors’ list:
place 1place 2place 3place 4
FreeFreeFreeFree
2350 $1200 $1050 $900 $
Contract №3239.1 Contract №3239.2 Contract №3239.3 Contract №3239.4
1 place - free (for sale)
2 place - free (for sale)
3 place - free (for sale)
4 place - free (for sale)

More details about the manuscript: Science Citation Index Expanded OR/AND Social Sciences Citation Index
Abstract:
Given the complexity of our visual environments, a number of mechanisms help us prioritize goal-consistent visual information. Distracting information, however, can also capture your attention, disrupting search. Although the effect of distraction on search behavior is heavily studied, we know little about its consequences for VWM. Stimulus color was irrelevant for both search tasks, but on trials where a salient distractor appeared on Search 1, we found evidence that the color associated with this distractor was incidentally encoded into VWM, resulting in memory-driven capture on Search 2. In two different experiments we observed slower responses on Search 2 when a non-target item matched the color of the salient distractor from Search 1. We propose a novel Filter Disruption Theory: distraction disrupts the attentional filter that controls access to VWM, resulting in the encoding of irrelevant inputs at the time of capture.
Keywords:
Attentional capture; Visual search; Visual working memory

Contacts :
0