Remembering “what” brings along “where” in visual working memory

Olson, Ingrid R.; Marshuetz, Christy

doi:10.3758/bf03206483

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“…Changes of these relations, as well as of the basic entities, could support change detection. Thus, both the individual objects and their relations to each other are part of the memory code (see also, e.g., Hollingworth, 2007;Jiang et al, 2000;Olson & Marshuetz, 2005;Vidal, Gauchou, Tallon-Baudry, & O'Regan, 2005).…”

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How high is visual short-term memory capacity for object layout?

Sanocki

Sellers

Mittelstadt

et al. 2010

Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics

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Previous research measuring visual short-term memory (VSTM) suggests that the capacity for representing the layout of objects is fairly high. In four experiments, we further explored the capacity of VSTM for layout of objects, using the change detection method. In Experiment 1, participants retained most of the elements in displays of 4 to 8 elements. In Experiments 2 and 3, with up to 20 elements, participants retained many of them, reaching a capacity of 13.4 stimulus elements. In Experiment 4, participants retained much of a complex naturalistic scene. In most cases, increasing display size caused only modest reductions in performance, consistent with the idea of configural, variable-resolution grouping. The results indicate that participants can retain a substantial amount of scene layout information (objects and locations) in short-term memory. We propose that this is a case of remote visual understanding, where observers' ability to integrate information from a scene is paramount.

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How high is visual short-term memory capacity for object layout?

Sanocki

Sellers

Mittelstadt

et al. 2010

Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics

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“…More recently, research has specifically documented that relative location information is bound to object feature information, such as the color of objects (e.g., Jiang et al, 2000;Olson & Marshuetz, 2005;Olson et al, 2004). For instance, Olson and Marshuetz presented participants with a single complex target, such as a face, in a display including other, nonmemory items.…”

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Effects of spatial configurations on visual change detection: An account of bias changes

Boduroǧlu

Shah

2009

Memory & Cognition

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In order to determine whether people encode spatial configuration information when encoding visual displays, in four experiments, we investigated whether changes in task-irrelevant spatial configuration information would influence color change detection accuracy. In a change detection task, when objects in the test display were presented in new random locations, rather than identical or different locations preserving the overall configuration, participants were more likely to report that the colors had changed. This consistent bias across four experiments suggested that people encode task-irrelevant spatial configuration along with object information. Experiment 4 also demonstrated that only a low-false-alarm group of participants effectively bound spatial configuration information to object information, suggesting that these types of binding processes are open to strategic influences.

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“…A number of studies on binding have suggested that in memory for visual information, features such as color and shape are automatically bound to their spatial location (see, e.g., Jiang et al, 2000;Olson & Marshuetz, 2005;Poch et al, 2010;Treisman & Zhang, 2006). For instance, Poch et al used a paradigm similar to that used by Prabhakaran et al (2000): Participants were presented with an array of letters in different locations, followed by a probe item that was either intact-the letter in its original location-or recombined-a letter and a location from the memory display that had not been presented together.…”

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Asymmetric binding in serial memory for verbal and spatial information

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As the number of studies showing that items can be retained as bound representations in memory increases, researchers are beginning to investigate how the different features are bound together. In the present study, we examined the relative importances of the verbal and spatial features in serial memory for visual stimuli. Participants were asked to memorize the order of series of letters presented visually in different locations on the computer screen. The results showed that manipulating the phonological similarity of the letters affected recall of their spatial locations, but that increasing the complexity of the spatial pattern had no effect on recall of the letters. This finding was observed in both order reconstruction (Exps. 1 and 2) and probe serial recall (Exps. 3 and 4), suggesting that verbal-spatial binding in serial memory for visual information is asymmetric.

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Remembering “what” brings along “where” in visual working memory

Cited by 88 publications

References 41 publications

How high is visual short-term memory capacity for object layout?

How high is visual short-term memory capacity for object layout?

Effects of spatial configurations on visual change detection: An account of bias changes

Asymmetric binding in serial memory for verbal and spatial information

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