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SUMMARY:Focusing attention in working and long-term memory through dissoci
 able mechanisms - Julie de Falco
DTSTART:20250613T130000Z
DTEND:20250613T140000Z
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CONTACT:Adam Triabhall
DESCRIPTION:This week we will discuss and debate a very recent paper by Go
 ng and colleagues (2025).\n\nAbstract: “We developed an experimental app
 roach to compare how attentional orienting facilitates retrieval from spat
 ial working memory (WM) and long-term memory (LTM)\, and how selective att
 ention within these two memory types impacts incoming sensory information 
 processing. In three experiments with healthy young adults\, retrospective
  attention cues prioritize an item represented in WM or LTM. Participants 
 then retrieve a memory item or perform a perceptual task. The retrocue is 
 informative for the retrieval task but not for the perceptual task. We sho
 w that attentional orienting benefits performance for both WM and LTM\, wi
 th stronger effects for WM. Eye-tracking reveals significant gaze shifts a
 nd microsaccades correlated with attention in WM\, but no statistically si
 gnificant gaze biases were found for LTM. Visual discrimination of unrelat
 ed visual stimuli is consistently improved for items matching attended WM 
 locations. Similar effects occur at LTM locations but less consistently. T
 he findings suggest at least partly dissociable attention-orienting proces
 ses for different memory types. Although our conclusions are necessarily c
 onstrained to the type of WM and LTM representations relevant to our task\
 , they suggest that\, under certain conditions\, attentional prioritizatio
 n in LTM can operate independently from WM. Future research should explore
  whether similar dissociations extend to non-spatial or more complex forms
  of LTM” (Gong et al.\, 2025).\n\nReference: Gong\, D.\, Draschkow\, D.\
 , & Nobre\, A. C. (2025). Focusing attention in working and long-term memo
 ry through dissociable mechanisms. Nature Communications\, 16(1)\, 4126–
 14. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-59359-0
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