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Neurosciences
Edward F. Ester, Paige Pytel
Summary: Assigning different levels of priority to working memory (WM) content influences the quality and speed of neural representations, but not the accuracy of decoding.
Article
Psychology, Mathematical
Alicia Forsberg, Dominic Guitard, Nelson Cowan
Summary: The debate over whether information in working memory is rapidly forgotten or transferred to long-term memory continues. Research shows that the capacity limit of working memory contributes to subsequent long-term memory failures and holding information in working memory enhances long-term memory encoding. The findings suggest that a limitation in working memory capacity creates a bottleneck for encoding of unique objects, with a relatively large effect size.
PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Klaus Oberauer
Summary: Some theorists argue that working memory has a limit on the number of items it can hold, and additional items are not encoded. However, the results of four experiments do not support this view. The researchers found that some individuals choose to guess even when they have weak information in memory, while others do not.
PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Ya-Ting Chen, Freek van Ede, Bo-Cheng Kuo
Summary: This study investigates the neural basis of working memory capacity by exploiting the content dependence of memory materials. The results show that alpha oscillations track memory capacity in a content-specific manner, dependent not only on the number of items but also on their complexity.
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Lingxia Fan, Mengsi Xu, Najam ul Hasan, Mengdan Sun, Xuemin Zhang
Summary: This study reexamined the interference and facilitation effects induced by multiple task-irrelevant representations from the same dimension in VWM, and investigated the guidance effect of multiple task-irrelevant representations from different dimensions. Results showed that multiple items in VWM can guide attention simultaneously, but the effects are flexible and varied across different types of stimuli.
CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Computer Science, Cybernetics
Jiahui Wang
Summary: This study examined the effects of instructor visibility on learning and the moderating role of working memory capacity on learners' visual attention and retention performance. The results showed that working memory capacity was a positive predictor of retention performance regardless of the video design.
BEHAVIOUR & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Congchong Li, Wenqing Tian, Yang He, Chaoxian Wang, Xianyang Wang, Xiang Xu, Lifeng Bai, Ting Xue, Yang Liao, Tao Xu, Xufeng Liu, Shengjun Wu
Summary: In this study, the change detection paradigm was used to investigate the working memory of patterned movements and its relationship with the visuospatial sketchpad. The experiments revealed that individuals can store 3-4 patterned movements in working memory, but changes in stimulus type and memory load can affect the processing efficiency. The results also showed that working memory and visual working memory are independent when processing patterned movements, but the working memory of patterned movements is influenced by spatial working memory.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Cristina R. Ceja, Steven L. Franconeri
Summary: This study examines the capacity limits of mental imagery and finds that they are similar to those of visual short-term memory. The level of detail in mental imagery is affected by factors such as the number of items, color heterogeneity, and transformation.
Article
Ophthalmology
Zachary Hamblin-Frohman, Stefanie I. Becker
Summary: Visual attention and visual working memory (VWM) are interconnected processes that can compete for limited cognitive resources and lead to interference effects. Previous research has suggested that the attentional selection process may be a cause of this interference. This study, through two experiments, demonstrates that attentional selection is sufficient to cause interference and influence the maintenance of VWM load.
Article
Psychology, Mathematical
Amy L. Atkinson, Klaus Oberauer, Richard J. Allen, Alessandra S. Souza
Summary: This study investigated how people prioritize valuable information in working memory and found that attentional refreshing contributes to the value effect.
PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Mathematical
Anna Heuer, Martin Rolfs
Summary: The study found that spatial and temporal properties can be equally used to flexibly prioritize representations held in visual working memory, highlighting the functional similarities of space and time in VWM.
PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW
(2022)
Article
Psychology
Gi-Yeul Bae
Summary: The representations in visual working memory are influenced by multiple biases, with cardinal bias being canceled out by interitem interaction. Selective attention modulates the influence of interitem interaction on the cardinal bias in WM.
ATTENTION PERCEPTION & PSYCHOPHYSICS
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Markus Conci, Nuno Busch, Robert P. Rozek, Hermann J. Mueller
Summary: In two experiments, researchers found that actively learning associations and meaning-based connections have a positive impact on the performance of visual working memory (VWM), especially for meaning-associated characters. These results provide experimental evidence that long-term memory associations with meaning enhance participants' VWM of objects.
PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Paul Zerr, Surya Gayet, Floris van den Esschert, Mitchel Kappen, Zoril Olah, Stefan Van der Stigchel
Summary: The study shows that retro-cues aid recall in visual short-term memory tasks by redistributing memory resources within the same low-capacity working memory store, rather than transferring information from a high-capacity memory store to visual working memory.
MEMORY & COGNITION
(2021)
Review
Psychology, Mathematical
Susan M. Ravizza, Katelyn M. Conn
Summary: This study discusses three ways in which information becomes automatically prioritized in working memory: physical salience, statistical learning, and reward learning. It integrates findings from perception and working memory studies to propose a more sophisticated understanding of the relationship between attention and working memory.
PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW
(2022)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Gabriel Lasne, Manuela Piazza, Stanislas Dehaene, Andreas Kleinschmidt, Evelyn Eger
Article
Neurosciences
Valentina Borghesani, Marco Buiatti, Evelyn Eger, Manuela Piazza
JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
(2019)
Article
Ophthalmology
Giuseppe Notaro, Wieske van Zoest, Magda Altman, David Melcher, Uri Hasson
Article
Neurosciences
Simone Vigano, Manuela Piazza
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2020)
Article
Neurosciences
Antimo Buonocore, Olaf Dimigen, David Melcher
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2020)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Christoph Huber-Huber, David Melcher
Summary: This study investigated the adaptability of the behavioral preview effect in trans-saccadic perception, revealing that invalid training reduced the preview effect and this training effect gradually declined over the course of the test phase.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2021)
Article
Neurosciences
Simone Vigano, Valerio Rubino, Antonio Di Soccio, Marco Buiatti, Manuela Piazza
Summary: The human brain represents relational information about words through grid-like and distance-dependent codes, as shown in a study where participants learned the meaning of novel words while performing a word comparison task.
Article
Neurosciences
Xiaoyi Liu, Elio Balestrieri, David Melcher
Summary: This study investigated fluctuations in face perception in the human brain and found a high-frequency behavioral oscillation in face detection tasks. Such oscillations might reflect rhythmic attentional sampling in visual processing or feedback loops involved in updating top-down predictions.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Ava Guez, Manuela Piazza, Pedro Pinheiro-Chagas, Hugo Peyre, Barbara Heude, Franck Ramus
Summary: A converging body of evidence suggests that different arithmetic operations rely on distinct neuro-cognitive processes. This study found that early language skills predicted multiplication ability, while early visuospatial skills predicted addition and subtraction ability.
DEVELOPMENTAL SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Gisella Decarli, Manuela Piazza, Veronique Izard
Summary: This study investigates inter-individual differences in infants' numerosity processing using a change detection paradigm. The findings suggest that 6-month-old infants respond to changes in numerosity, but the alternating pattern does not contribute to infants' preferences.
Article
Psychology, Biological
Alessia Santoni, David Melcher, Laura Franchin, Luca Ronconi
Summary: Developmental dyslexia (DD) is a common neurodevelopmental disorder that affects reading ability. This study examined the efficiency of temporal segregation and integration of visual information in DD using event-related potentials (ERPs). The results showed a selective segregation deficit in dyslexia, despite unaffected integration performance. DD individuals also exhibited reduced attentional resources allocation and abnormal working memory capacity. These findings provide new evidence for the neural correlates of decreased visual temporal resolution in DD.
Article
Neurosciences
Jasper H. Fabius, Alessio Fracasso, David J. Acunzo, Stefan van der Stigchel, David Melcher
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2020)
Meeting Abstract
Ophthalmology
Christoph Huber-Huber, Antimo Buonocore, Clayton Hickey, David Melcher
Meeting Abstract
Ophthalmology
Jasper Fabius, Alessio Fracasso, David Acunzo, Davide Deflorio, Stefan Van der Stigchel, David Melcher
Meeting Abstract
Ophthalmology
David Acunzo, Katya Gordienko, David Melcher