Abstract: The aim of this review was made a summary of the interplay relationship between Working memory and selective attention. These works can put into two categories. The fist category mainly stressed the role of the working memory in the selective attention which included the influence of the contents in working memory on the allocation of selective attention, the influence of working memory on the working memory in the control of selective attention and the influence of working memory on visual search and inhibition of return. The second category mainly stressed the role of the selective attention in the working memory which included the role of the attention in the rehearsal of the spatial working memory, the role of mechanism of distractor processing of selective attention in working memory and the orient spatial attention on mnemonic representations

Key words: working memory, selective attention, interplay relationship, visual search, inhibition of return