Large Capacity of Conscious Access for Incidental Memories in Natural Scenes
| Autor: | Naotsugu Tsuchiya, Elise G. Rowe, Lisandro Nicolas Kaunitz |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Male Adolescent Consciousness Eye Movements media_common.quotation_subject Large capacity Short-term memory 050105 experimental psychology 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine Face perception Memory Perception Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Attention General Psychology media_common Visual search 05 social sciences Reproducibility of Results Recognition Psychology Pattern Recognition Visual Face Fixation (visual) Visual Perception Introspection Female Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Psychological science. 27(9) |
| ISSN: | 1467-9280 |
| Popis: | When searching a crowd, people can detect a target face only by direct fixation and attention. Once the target is found, it is consciously experienced and remembered, but what is the perceptual fate of the fixated nontarget faces? Whereas introspection suggests that one may remember nontargets, previous studies have proposed that almost no memory should be retained. Using a gaze-contingent paradigm, we asked subjects to visually search for a target face within a crowded natural scene and then tested their memory for nontarget faces, as well as their confidence in those memories. Subjects remembered up to seven fixated, nontarget faces with more than 70% accuracy. Memory accuracy was correlated with trial-by-trial confidence ratings, which implies that the memory was consciously maintained and accessed. When the search scene was inverted, no more than three nontarget faces were remembered. These findings imply that incidental memory for faces, such as those recalled by eyewitnesses, is more reliable than is usually assumed. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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