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Annual Review of Psychology

Volume 74, 2023

Turning Attention Inside Out: How Working Memory Serves Behavior

Abstract

Flexible behavior requires guidance not only by sensations that are available immediately but also by relevant mental contents carried forward through working memory. Therefore, selective-attention functions that modulate the contents of working memory to guide behavior (inside-out) are just as important as those operating on sensory signals to generate internal contents (outside-in). We review the burgeoning literature on selective attention in the inside-out direction and underscore its functional, flexible, and future-focused nature. We discuss in turn the purpose (why), targets (what), sources (when), and mechanisms (how) of selective attention inside working memory, using visual working memory as a model. We show how the study of internal selective attention brings new insights concerning the core cognitive processes of attention and working memory and how considering selective attention and working memory together paves the way for a rich and integrated understanding of how mind serves behavior.

Keyword(s): action, anticipation, expectation, selective attention, vision, working memory
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Turning Attention Inside Out: How Working Memory Serves Behavior
Annual Review of Psychology 74, 137 (2023); https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-021422-041757
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