Visual attention and the reviewing process

A new presentation of a previously displayed target stimulus makes the revi ewing process automatically recover its previous episodic representation. R eviewing is automatic only if it is not affected by Visual attention. This assumption was carefully evaluated in two experiments with different manipu lations of visual attention. In experiment 1, reviewing was compared using early and late cues. In experiment 2, reviewing was compared using early cu es that anticipated the correct (valid cues) and the incorrect (invalid cue s) target locations. In both experiments an attentional effect was shown bu t the reviewing process was not affected by it. In addition, with regard to the "type" and "token" distinction, object specific priming appeared only when the target proceeded from the upper visual field, while conventional p riming was not affected by this fact.