What guides attention when searching the mind?
| Project/Area Number |
21K20306
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Review Section |
0110:Psychology and related fields
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| Research Institution | Waseda University |
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Principal Investigator |
Kong Garry 早稲田大学, 高等研究所, 講師(任期付) (70906370)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2021-08-30 – 2023-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2022)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,210,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥510,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
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| Keywords | Attention / Visual Working Memory / Visual Cognition / Visual Search / Cognitive Psychology |
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| Outline of Research at the Start |
This project will investigate the reasons for limitations in human attention by addressing this issue through the lens of visual working memory. Attention is typically researched through perception, e.g., most experiments involve searching our field of view. While our understanding of attention has been greatly enhanced through these attention to perception experiments, attention can also be focused on memory. Do the established rules of attention hold when we use attention within visual working memory?
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Across three studies, we investigated the role of features when directing attention internally towards visual working memory. We have determined that both the guidance and the manipulation of objects in attention is a feature-based process. Furthermore, we have determined that the features that can guide attention internally is broader than it is for externally directed attention. Further research is required to determine whether these findings are due to the difference between visual perception and visual working memory, or whether this is a fundamental difference that occurs when changing the direction of attention.
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
The phenomena of ‘looking, but not seeing’ is a growing cause of concern, causing issues such as traffic accidents due to missed obstacles. This research contributes to a growing body of work showing that people do not pay attention to an object, only the features that make it up (e.g., its colour).
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