Trial reportScientific reports2019
Working memory capacity affects trade-off between quality and quantity only when stimulus exposure duration is sufficient: Evidence for the two-phase model.
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- Individual differences in working memory capacity are unrelated to the magnitudes of retrocue benefits.Scientific reports · 2021Trial
- Color first, space next, orientation last: A temporal comparison of retro-cue effects in visual working memory.Memory & cognition · 2026Article
- The Pictorial-Semantic-Task Framework for Understanding Graph Comprehension.Journal of Intelligence · 2026Review
- Early or late distractions hurt working memory differently depending on how long you look.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- All identical objects reduce memory load at the late maintenance stage in working memory.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Comprehensive exploration of visual working memory mechanisms using large-scale behavioral experiment.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Interpreting insect behavior through the lens of executive functions.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2025Article
- Comparing retro-cue benefit mechanisms in visual working memory: completely valid vs. highly valid retro-cues.BMC psychology · 2024Article
- Influence of presentation duration on filtering of irrelevant stimuli in visual working memory.BMC psychology · 2024Article
- The differential impact of face distractors on visual working memory across encoding and delay stages.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2024Article
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- A negative emotional state impairs individuals' ability to filter distractors from working memory: an ERP study.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2024Article
- Alpha neurofeedback training improves visual working memory in healthy individuals.NPJ science of learning · 2024Article
- Dimension-based retro-cue benefit in working memory does not require unfocused dimension removal.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Sustained attention required for effective dimension-based retro-cue benefit in visual working memory.Journal of vision · 2023Article
- Alterations in working memory maintenance of fearful face distractors in depressed participants: An ERP study.Journal of vision · 2023Article
- The Rejection Template of Working Memory Operates after Attention Capture.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Encoding specificity instead of online integration of real-world spatial regularities for objects in working memory.Journal of vision · 2022Article
- Induced negative arousal modulates the speed of visual working memory consolidation.Emotion (Washington, D.C.) · 2022Article
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Abstract
The relation between visual working memory (VWM) capacity and attention has attracted much interest. In this study, we investigated the correlation between the participants' VWM capacity and their ability to voluntarily trade off the precision and number of items remembered. The two-phase resource allocation model proposed by Ye et al. (2017) suggests that for a given set size, it takes a certain amount of consolidation time for an individual to control attention to adjust the VWM resources to trade off the precision and number. To verify whether trade-off ability varies across VWM capacity, we measured each individual's VWM capacity and then conducted a colour recall task to examine their trade-off ability. By manipulating the task requirement, participants were instructed to memorise either more colours in a low-precision way or fewer colours in a high-precision way. We conducted two experiments by adjusting stimulus duration to be longer than predicted critical value (Experiment 1) and duration shorter than predicted critical value (Experiment 2). While the results of Experiment 1 showed a positive correlation between the VWM capacity and trade-off ability, the results of Experiment 2 showed a lack of such correlation. These results are consistent with the prediction from the two-phase model.
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