ArticlePsychological science2022
Little Support for Discrete Item Limits in Visual Working Memory.
Article in Psychological science, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed.
- Beyond memory capacity: A probabilistic, dual store model of visuospatial working memory.PLoS computational biology · 2026Article
- Double-decision Response Time Models of Recall and Recognition Support Resource Accounts of Visual Working Memory.Computational brain & behavior · 2026Article
- Capacity not required: A long-term memory model that exhibits key signatures of working memory.Psychological review · 2026Article
- The multicomponent model of working memory fifty years on.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2025Article
- Visual working memory models of delayed estimation do not generalize to whole-report tasks.Journal of vision · 2024Article
- Object-based encoding constrains storage in visual working memory.Journal of experimental psychology. General · 2024Article
- Distinguishing guesses from fuzzy memories: Further evidence for item limits in visual working memory.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2023Article
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Abstract
Some theorists argue that working memory is limited to a discrete number of items and that additional items are not encoded at all. Adam et al. (2017) presented evidence supporting this hypothesis: Participants reproduced visual features of up to six items in a self-chosen order. After the third or fourth response, error distributions were indistinguishable from guessing. I present four experiments with young adults (each
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