ArticleJournal of experimental psychology. General2024
Object-based encoding constrains storage in visual working memory.
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- Reconstructing mental representations of block towers: A new bias for physical stability in visual working memory.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Article
- The Impact of Dimension Switching on Visual Short-Term Memory.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2026Article
- Double-decision Response Time Models of Recall and Recognition Support Resource Accounts of Visual Working Memory.Computational brain & behavior · 2026Article
- Colors, characters, locations, and shapes: The capacity of working memory for multiple, dissimilar sets of items.Memory & cognition · 2026Article
- Contributions from Long-Term Memory Explain Superior Visual Working Memory Performance with Meaningful Objects.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026Article
- Item-based Parsing of Dynamic Scenes in a Combined Attentional Tracking and Working Memory Task.Journal of cognitive neuroscience · 2026Article
- Contributions from Long-Term Memory Explain Superior Visual Working Memory Performance with Meaningful Objects.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Cortically Disparate Visual Features Evoke Content-Independent Load Signals during Storage in Working Memory.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- Mixing and mingling in visual working memory: Inter-item competition is feature-specific during encoding and feature-general during maintenance.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2024Article
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Abstract
The fundamental unit of visual working memory (WM) has been debated for decades. WM could be object-based, such that capacity is set by the number of individuated objects, or feature-based, such that capacity is determined by the total number of feature values stored. The present work examined whether object- or feature-based models would best explain how multifeature objects (i.e., color/orientation or color/shape) are encoded into visual WM. If maximum capacity is limited by the number of individuated objects, then above-chance performance should be restricted to the same number of items as in a single-feature condition. By contrast, if the capacity is determined by independent storage resources for distinct features-without respect to the objects that contain those features-then successful storage of feature values could be distributed across a larger number of objects than when only a single feature is relevant. We conducted four experiments using a whole-report task in which subjects reported both features from every item in a six-item array. The crucial finding was that above-chance recall-for both single- and multifeatured objects-was restricted to the first three or four responses, while the later responses were best modeled as guesses. Thus, whole-report with multifeature objects reveals a distribution of recalled features that indicates an object-based limit on WM capacity. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).
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