Memory Consolidation During Rapid Serial Visual Presentation

Breuer, Andreas; Masson, Michael E. J.; Silveira, Magali Floriano da; Lindsay, D. Stephen

doi:10.1037/e527342012-443

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“…Our results for word streams-symbolic stimuli that have a memory representation-corroborate previous results of Breuer et al (2009), who found analogous effects for picture stimuli, and of Whittlesea and Price (2001), who observed increased familiarity for words presented in RSVP streams. What is new about our present findings is (a) the consistent evidence for the impact of presentation frequency, (b) the dissociation between implicit and explicit memory effects within an RSVP paradigm, and (c) the differential impact of repetition on words and pseudowords.…”

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“…In the present studies we demonstrated similar effects for linguistic stimuli-word and pseudoword 1 distractors in extremely long RSVP streams, corroborating the findings of Breuer et al (2009) but also extending them in several ways: First, we investigated the effect of multiple repetitions of distractor stimuli in an RSVP stream, which have been shown to influence the way the brain processes visual stimuli (e.g., Henson, Shallice, & Dolan, 2000;Reber, Gitelman, Parrish, & Mesulam, 2005). We expected that memory effects of RSVP items accumulate over multiple occurrences.…”

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“…Consistent with this notion, Breuer, Masson, Cohen, and Lindsay (2009) showed that pictures presented for 75 ms in an RSVP stream do leave memory traces, as revealed by implicit measures. Their participants searched picture streams for specific targets.…”

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“…Third, we directly contrasted performance in lexical decision (an indirect memory task) and recognition (a direct memory task). Thus, in contrast to Breuer et al (2009), we were able to relate both forms of memory and to test whether repetition effects in the indirect task are mediated by conscious processes as assessed by the direct task.…”

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Long-lasting effects of briefly flashed words and pseudowords in ultrarapid serial visual presentation.

Albrecht¹,

Vorberg²

2010

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cogni

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Our ability to identify even complex scenes in rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) is astounding, but memory for such items seems lacking. Rather than pictures, we used streams of more than 200 verbal stimuli, rushing by on the screen at a rate of more than 12 items per second while participants had to detect infrequent names (Experiments 1 and 2) or words written in capitals (Experiment 3). By direct and indirect tests, we investigated what is remembered of these masses of task-irrelevant distractor words and pseudowords embedded in an RSVP stream. Lexical decision, the indirect test applied either immediately after each stimulus train or with a delay, revealed strong long-term priming effects. Relative to stimuli not shown before, lexical decisions were faster and more accurate to words but slower to pseudowords. The size of these effects mirrored how often words and pseudowords had occurred in a stream, suggesting that memory traces are strengthened with successive presentations and survive for several minutes at least. Moreover, in a direct test (old-new categorization), words as well as pseudowords benefited from prior occurrence in an RSVP stream if they had occurred more than once. These findings parallel recent physiological and behavioral evidence for memory consolidation of distractor pictures in RSVP and highlight that, despite huge numbers of interfering stimuli, distractor words and pseudowords exhibit long-lasting memory effects. Consolidation seems to progress at higher cognitive levels at the same time that subsequent stimuli are perceptually processed.

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