Attentional priorities and access to short-term memory: Parietal interactions

► IPS has been implicated both in attentional selection and visual short-term memory. ► We factorially varied target and distracter set size during change detection. ► A significant interaction occurred in middle IPS and right TPJ. ► Right TPJ was involved in spotting target singletons. ► The IPS profile reflected the combined effect of selection and VSTM access.