Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China.
Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.
Trends Cogn Sci. 2023 Dec;27(12):1111-1122. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2023.08.010. Epub 2023 Sep 7.
Attention has been regarded as the 'gatekeeper' controlling what information gets selected into working memory. However, a new perspective has emerged with the discovery of attribute amnesia, a phenomenon revealing that people are frequently unable to report information they have just attended to moments ago. This report failure is thought to stem from a lack of consolidating the attended information into working memory, indicating a dissociation between attention and working memory. Building on these findings, a new concept called memory reselection is proposed to describe a secondary round of selection among the attended information. These discoveries challenge the conventional view of how attention and working memory are related and shed new light onto modeling attention and memory as dissociable processes.
注意力被认为是“守门员”，控制着哪些信息被选择进入工作记忆。然而，随着属性遗忘现象的发现，出现了一种新的观点，即人们经常无法报告他们刚刚注意到的信息。这种报告失败被认为源于未能将注意力集中的信息整合到工作记忆中，这表明注意力和工作记忆之间存在分离。基于这些发现，提出了一个新概念，称为记忆再选择，用于描述对注意力集中信息的第二轮选择。这些发现挑战了传统的关于注意力和工作记忆之间关系的观点，并为将注意力和记忆建模为可分离的过程提供了新的视角。
