Semantic meaning enhances feature-binding but not quantity or precision of locations in visual working memory.
Recent studies showed that real-world items are better remembered in visual working memory (VWM) than visually similar stimuli that are stripped of their semantic meaning. However, the exact nature of this advantage remains unclear. We used meaningful and meaningless stimuli in a location-reproducti...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 52; no. 8; pp. 2107 - 2119 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=181119862&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 181119862 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 0090502X MEG jtl: Memory & Cognition issn: 0090502X maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Nov2024 vid: 52 iid: 8 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 181119862 10.3758/s13421-024-01611-x ppf: 2107 ppct: 12 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 1.5MB tig: atl: Semantic meaning enhances feature-binding but not quantity or precision of locations in visual working memory. aug: au: Sahar, Tomer Gronau, Nurit Makovski, Tal affil: https://ror.org/027z64205 Department of Psychology and Education, The Open University of Israel, Ra'anana, Israel https://ror.org/02f009v59 School of Psychological Sciences & The Institute of Information Processing and Decision Making, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel su: Task performance Semantics Data analysis Research funding Sample size (Statistics) Descriptive statistics Experimental design Statistics Short-term memory Accuracy Visual perception Space perception sug: subj: Task performance Semantics Data analysis Research funding Sample size (Statistics) Descriptive statistics Experimental design Statistics Short-term memory Accuracy Visual perception Space perception keyword: Estimation task Meaningless items Real-world items Spatial location Estimation task Meaningless items Real-world items Spatial location ab: Recent studies showed that real-world items are better remembered in visual working memory (VWM) than visually similar stimuli that are stripped of their semantic meaning. However, the exact nature of this advantage remains unclear. We used meaningful and meaningless stimuli in a location-reproduction VWM task. Employing a mixture-modeling analysis, we examined whether semantic meaning enables more item locations to be remembered, whether it improves the precision of the locations stored in memory, or whether it improves binding between the specific items and their locations. Participants were presented with streams of four (Experiments 1 & 2) or six (Experiment 3) real-world items, or their scrambled, meaningless counterparts. Each item was presented at a unique location, and the task was to reproduce one item's location. Overall, location memory was consistently better for real-world items compared with their scrambled counterparts. Furthermore, the results revealed that participants were less likely to make swap errors for the meaningful items, but there was no effect of conceptual meaning on the guess rate or the precision of the report. In line with previous findings, these results indicate that conceptual meaning enhances VWM for arbitrary stimulus properties such as item location, and this improvement is primarily due to a more efficient identity-location binding rather than an increase in the quantity or quality (precision) of the locations held in memory. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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