Liao Jiejie, Zhang Manqi, Peng Jun, Gao Yuan, Mo Lei
School of Education, Guangdong University of Education, Guangzhou, 510303, China.
Key Laboratory of Brain, Cognition and Education Sciences, Ministry of Education, Center for Studies of Psychological Application, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631, China.
Cogn Process. 2025 Jul 17. doi: 10.1007/s10339-025-01290-9.
Visual selection for external stimuli, guided by a cue that prioritizes goal-related as well as feature matching stimuli, is modulated by stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA) after the cue. However, whether or not the modulation effect of SOA can occur when attention is directed to internal representations in working memory remains unclear. In two experiments, we explored the influences of SOA after a retrospective cue (retro-cue) that simultaneously incurs goal-directed and stimulus-driven priority on internal attention to working memory representations during orientation (Experiment 1) and color (Experiment 2) reproducing tasks. Results of the two experiments suggested that SOA modulated goal-directed attention to working memory representations, with greater goal-directed priority when SOA was longer. Stimulus-driven attention was possibly modulated by SOA, as was suggested by the SOA modulation effect on stimulus-driven priority in Experiment 1, but not in Experiment 2. This study uncovered the temporal dynamics of goal-directed and stimulus-driven attention to working memory representations, suggesting that the SOA effect on goal-directed attentional priority is robust across different feature domains.
由一个优先考虑目标相关以及特征匹配刺激的线索引导的对外部刺激的视觉选择，在该线索之后会受到刺激呈现异步性（SOA）的调节。然而，当注意力指向工作记忆中的内部表征时，SOA的调节效应是否会出现仍不清楚。在两项实验中，我们探究了在回顾性线索（回溯线索）之后SOA的影响，该线索在定向（实验1）和颜色（实验2）再现任务中，会同时引发目标导向和刺激驱动的优先级，从而影响对工作记忆表征的内部注意力。两项实验的结果表明，SOA调节了对工作记忆表征的目标导向注意力，当SOA更长时，目标导向优先级更高。刺激驱动的注意力可能受到SOA的调节，实验1中对刺激驱动优先级的SOA调节效应表明了这一点，但实验2中并非如此。本研究揭示了对工作记忆表征的目标导向和刺激驱动注意力的时间动态，表明SOA对目标导向注意力优先级的影响在不同特征领域中是稳健的。
