Journal article
Constructing Visual Representations of Natural Scenes: The Roles of Short- and Long-Term Visual Memory
Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance, Vol.30(3), pp.519-537
06/2004
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.30.3.519
PMID: 15161384
Abstract
A "follow-the-dot" method was used to investigate the visual memory systems supporting accumulation of object information in natural scenes. Participants fixated a series of objects in each scene, following a dot cue from object to object. Memory for the visual form of a target object was then tested. Object memory was consistently superior for the two most recently fixated objects, a recency advantage indicating a visual short-term memory component to scene representation. In addition, objects examined earlier were remembered at rates well above chance, with no evidence of further forgetting when 10 objects intervened between target examination and test and only modest forgetting with 402 intervening objects. This robust prerecency performance indicates a visual long-term memory component to scene representation.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Constructing Visual Representations of Natural Scenes: The Roles of Short- and Long-Term Visual Memory
- Creators
- Andrew Hollingworth - Department of Psychology, University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance, Vol.30(3), pp.519-537
- DOI
- 10.1037/0096-1523.30.3.519
- PMID
- 15161384
- NLM abbreviation
- J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform
- ISSN
- 0096-1523
- eISSN
- 1939-1277
- Publisher
- American Psychological Association
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/2004
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9984213266102771
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