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Spatial transposition gradients in visual working memory.
Journal article

Spatial transposition gradients in visual working memory.

  • Rerko L a Department of Psychology-Cognitive Psychology , University of Zurich , Zurich , Switzerland.
  • Oberauer K
  • Lin HY
  • 2013-05-14
Published in:
  • Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006). - 2014
Adult
Attention
Color Perception
Cues
Female
Humans
Male
Memory, Short-Term
Mental Recall
Photic Stimulation
Probability
Reaction Time
Serial Learning
Space Perception
Statistics, Nonparametric
Young Adult
English In list memory, access to individual items reflects limits of temporal distinctiveness. This is reflected in the finding that neighbouring list items tend to be confused most often. This article investigates the analogous effect of spatial proximity in a visual working-memory task. Items were presented in different locations varying in spatial distance. A retro-cue indicated the location of the item relevant for the subsequent memory test. In two recognition experiments, probes matching spatially close neighbours of the relevant item led to more false alarms than probes matching distant neighbours or non-neighbouring memory items. In two probed-recall experiments, one with simultaneous, the other with sequential memory item presentation, items closer to the cued location were more frequently chosen for recall than more distant items. These results reflect a spatial transposition gradient analogous to the temporal transposition gradient in serial recall and challenge fixed-capacity models of visual working memory (WM).
Language
  • English
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closed
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https://sonar.ch/global/documents/91573
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