注意对视觉工作记忆中特征捆绑作用-pay attention to that function of bin features in visual work memory.docxVIP

万方数据 万方数据 Abstract Visual information rarely consists of single-feature objects in our daily life, presented without accompanying context. Without encoding and holding in memory the connections between constituent elements of objects, or the connections between objects and the context in which they were encountered, the visual environment around us would be difficult to comprehend. The connection processes and the temporary storage of them involved have formed a major focus problem for recent work in the area of working memory, that is feature binding. A central question has been whether the binding processes need additional central attention support or not. The feature binding process was initially assumed to depend upon executive attention resources, and episodic buffer component of working memory is assumed to play a central role in the binding of features into objects. However, Recent studies of visual short-term memory have suggested that that visual feature binding based on Gestalt principles is independent of executive control. That is to say, this type of feature binding is relatively automatic. It is possible that feature bindings can develop automatically through perceptual processes only when the features are part of a visually unitized object or pattern. Separation of features across space or time may rule out automatic, perceptually based binding and may shift responsibility to an attention-demanding set of processes. Here, We therefore carried out a series of three experiments to explicitly explore the effect of attention load on feature binding of visual working memory. The three experiments in this text used dual-task methodology to compare the effects of a concurrent executive attention load on the capacity to encode and retain both individual features ( such as color or shape ) and feature bindings ( colored shapes ),which is aimed specifically to explore whether feature bindings in visual working memory need additional executive attention supports