The current study shows that spatial visual attention is used to retrieve information from
visual working memory. Participants had to keep four colored circles in visual working …

Recent empirical and theoretical work has depicted a close relationship between visual
attention and visual working memory. For example, rehearsal in spatial working memory …

Previous work has generated inconsistent results with regard to what extent working
memory (WM) content guides visual attention. Some studies found effects of easy to …

The relationship between working memory and selective attention has traditionally been
discussed as operating in one direction: Attention filters incoming information, allowing only …

Many theories of attention have proposed that visual working memory plays an important
role in visual search tasks. The present study examined the involvement of visual working …

This paper reviews the recent findings on working memory, attention and eye movements.
We discuss the research that shows that many phenomena related to visual attention taking …

There is substantial debate over whether visual working memory (VWM) and visual attention
constitute a single system for the selection of task-relevant perceptual information or whether …

Working memory is thought to be divided into distinct visual and verbal subsystems. Studies
of visual working memory frequently use verbal working memory tasks as control conditions …

An active recent line of research on working memory and attention has shown that the visual
attention can be top-down guided by working memory contents. The present study examined …

This study examined how spatial working memory and visual (object) working memory
interact, focusing on two related questions: First, can these systems function independently …