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Visual Salience Affects Performance in a Working Memory Task
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Many studies of bottom-up visual attention have focused on identifying which features of a visual stimulus render it salient--i.e., make it "pop out" from its background--and on characterizing the extent to which salience predicts eye movements under certain task conditions. However, few studies have examined the relationship between salience and other cognitive functions, such as memory. We examined the impact of visual salience in an object-place working memory task, in which participants memorized the position of 3-5 distinct objects (icons) on a two-dimensional map. We found that their ability to recall an object's spatial location was positively correlated with the object's salience, as quantified using a previously published computational model (Itti et al., 1998). Moreover, the strength of this relationship increased with increasing task difficulty. The correlation between salience and error could not be explained by a biasing of overt attention in favor of more salient icons during memorization, since eye-tracking data revealed no relationship between an icon's salience and fixation time. Our findings show that the influence of bottom-up attention extends beyond oculomotor behavior to include the encoding of information into memory.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Fine, M. S., & Minnery, B. S.
- Affiliations
- Mitre (United States) (US)
- Corresponding author
- Minnery, B. S.
- ORCID
- Fine, M. S.
- Venue
- Journal of Neuroscience
- Publisher
- Society for Neuroscience
- Published
- 2009-06-24
- Volume
- 29
- Issue
- 25
- Pages
- 8016-8021
- ISSN
- 0270-6474 (ISSN-L)
- 1529-2401
- PMC
- PMC6666026
- OpenAlex
- W1994624497
- Cited by
- 115
- References
- 53
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- FWCI
- 6.99
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Journal of Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Keywords
- visual saliency, bottom-up attention, working memory, salience model, task difficulty, fixation duration
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Attention, Cognition, Eye Movements, Female, Fixation, Ocular, Humans, Male, Memory, Short-Term, Middle Aged, Neuropsychological Tests, Orientation, Photic Stimulation, Psychomotor Performance, Reaction Time, Space Perception, Visual Perception, Young Adult
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