ArticleAttention, perception & psychophysics2020
Visual and verbal working memory loads interfere with scene-viewing.
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- Rapid ensemble encoding of average scene features.Journal of vision · 2026Article
- Eye movements and event segmentation: Eye movements reveal age-related differences in event model updating.Psychology and aging · 2024Article
- An updating-based working memory load alters the dynamics of eye movements but not their spatial extent during free viewing of natural scenes.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2024Article
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- Working memory control predicts fixation duration in scene-viewing.Psychological research · 2023Article
- Working memory assessment using cambridge neuropsychological test automated battery can help in the diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Dementia & neuropsychologia · 2022Review
- Do cognitive load and ADHD traits affect the tendency to prioritise social information in scenes?Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2022Article
- Working Memory Load Effects on the Tilt Aftereffect.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Working memory is thought to be divided into distinct visual and verbal subsystems. Studies of visual working memory frequently use verbal working memory tasks as control conditions and/or use articulatory suppression to ensure that visual load is not transferred to verbal working memory. Using these verbal tasks relies on the assumption that the verbal working memory load will not interfere with the same processes as visual working memory. In the present study, participants maintained a visual or verbal working memory load as they simultaneously viewed scenes while their eye movements were recorded. Because eye movements and visual working memory are closely linked, we anticipated the visual load would interfere with scene-viewing (and vice versa), while the verbal load would not. Surprisingly, both visual and verbal memory loads interfered with scene-viewing behavior, while eye movements during scene-viewing did not significantly interfere with performance on either memory task. These results suggest that a verbal working memory load can interfere with eye movements in a visual task.
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