'Memory compression' effects in visual working memory are contingent on explicit long-term memory
| Autor: | James A. Brissenden, Edward Awh, William X. Q. Ngiam |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Male Online and offline Memory Long-Term Color Short-term memory Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Sample (statistics) Article 050105 experimental psychology Task (project management) Developmental Neuroscience Visual memory Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences General Psychology Recall Working memory Long-term memory 05 social sciences Memory Short-Term Mental Recall Visual Perception Female Psychology Photic Stimulation Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | J Exp Psychol Gen |
| ISSN: | 1939-2222 0096-3445 |
| Popis: | Brady, Konkle, and Alvarez (2009) argued that statistical learning boosts the number of colors that can be held online in visual working memory (WM). They showed that when specific colors are consistently paired together in a WM task, subjects can take optimal advantage of these regularities to recall more colors, an effect they labeled memory compression. They proposed that memory compression is a product of visual statistical learning, an automatic apprehension of statistical regularities that has been shown in prior work to be disconnected from explicit learning. If statistical learning enables an expansion of the number of individuated representations in visual WM, it would require revision of virtually all models of capacity in this online memory system. That said, this provocative claim is inconsistent with multiple studies that have found no improvement in WM performance following numerous repetitions of specific sample displays (e.g., Logie, Brockmole, & Vandenbroucke, 2009; Olson & Jiang, 2004). Here, we replicate the Brady et al. (2009) findings but show that memory compression effects were restricted to subjects who had perfect explicit recall of the color pairs at the end of the study, suggesting that statistical regularities boosted performance by enabling contributions from long-term memory. Thus, while memory compression effects provide an interesting example of the tight collaboration between online and offline memory representations, they do not provide evidence that statistical regularities can augment the number of individuated representations that can be concurrently stored in visual WM. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved). |
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