Journal article
The cost of accessing an object's feature stored in visual working memory
Visual cognition, Vol.19(1), pp.1-12
01/01/2011
DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2010.521140
PMCID: PMC3017355
PMID: 21221413
Abstract
The effects of accessing or retrieving information held in working memory are poorly understood compared to what we know about the nature of information storage in this limited-capacity memory system. Previous studies of object-based attention have often relied upon memory-demanding tasks, and this work could indicate that accessing a piece of information in visual working memory may have deleterious effects upon the other representations being maintained. In the present study, we tested the hypothesis that accessing a feature of an object represented in visual working memory degrades the representations of the other stored objects' features. Our findings support this hypothesis and point to important new questions about the nature of effects resulting from accessing information stored in visual working memory.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The cost of accessing an object's feature stored in visual working memory
- Creators
- Geoffrey F Woodman - Vanderbilt Vision Research Center, Center for Cognitive and Integrative Neuroscience , Vanderbilt UniversityShaun P Vecera - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Visual cognition, Vol.19(1), pp.1-12
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Group
- DOI
- 10.1080/13506285.2010.521140
- PMID
- 21221413
- PMCID
- PMC3017355
- ISSN
- 1350-6285
- eISSN
- 1464-0716
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/2011
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984066139502771
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