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  • Title: Spatial attention interacts with serial-order retrieval from verbal working memory.
    Author: van Dijck JP, Abrahamse EL, Majerus S, Fias W.
    Journal: Psychol Sci; 2013 Sep; 24(9):1854-9. PubMed ID: 23863755.
    Abstract:
    The ability to maintain the serial order of events is recognized as a major function of working memory. Although general models of working memory postulate a close link between working memory and attention, such a link has so far not been proposed specifically for serial-order working memory. The present study provided the first empirical demonstration of a direct link between serial order in verbal working memory and spatial selective attention. We show that the retrieval of later items of a sequence stored in working memory-compared with that of earlier items-produces covert attentional shifts toward the right. This observation suggests the conceptually surprising notion that serial-order working memory, even for nonspatially defined verbal items, draws on spatial attention.
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