"How do we find something we are looking for?" asks the MedicalNewsToday post. "New data support the hypothesis that when we want to find something, we hold an image of it in our visual working memory. Volunteers' brain activity was measured as they looked for an object in a complex scene. Results indicate that visual working memory mechanisms may be involved in maintaining attention for a specific target during a search task. These findings have important clinical implications - for example, working memory problems may be mistaken for attentional deficits."
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