ArticleJournal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance2022
You cannot "count" how many items people remember in visual working memory: The importance of signal detection-based measures for understanding change detection performance.
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Change detection tasks are commonly used to measure and understand the nature of visual working memory capacity. Across three experiments, we examine whether the nature of the memory signals used to perform change detection are continuous or all-or-none and consider the implications for proper measurement of performance. In Experiment 1, we find evidence from confidence reports that visual working memory is continuous in strength, with strong support for an equal variance signal detection model with no guesses or lapses. Experiments 2 and 3 test an implication of this, which is that
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