When people find that someone else is looking in a certain direction, they automaticallyfollow his gaze and notice the same location, which is known as joint attention. Working memory is amemory system with limited energy for processing and storage. It has the characteristics of transience andprocessability. The process of working memory consists of three successive stages: encoding, maintaining,and retrieval. Whether joint attention affects working memory retention is not yet known. This studycombined gaze cues with classical visual working memory tasks to explore the influence of the consistencyof gaze cues direction and memory item location on the retention stage of working memory. The resultsshowed that the direction of gaze cues had no significant effect on the retention of working memory, andthe level of autistic trait was not found.