ArticleCommunications psychology2023
No obligatory trade-off between the use of space and time for working memory.
Article in Communications psychology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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- The stubborn location: Spatial location is more resistant to removal than non-spatial features in visual working memory.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Article
- Sparse Spatial Scaffolding for Visual Working Memory.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026Article
- Spatiotemporal position overlap disrupts feature binding in visual working memory.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2025Article
- Concurrent selection of internal goals and external sensations during visual search.Science advances · 2025Article
- Looking into Working Memory to Verify Potential Search Targets.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Microsaccades strongly modulate but do not directly cause the EEG N2pc marker of spatial attention.PLoS biology · 2025Article
- Focusing attention in working and long-term memory through dissociable mechanisms.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Neural Dynamics of Reselecting Visual and Motor Contents in Working Memory after External Interference.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
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- Attentional shifts bias microsaccade direction but do not cause new microsaccades.Communications psychology · 2024Article
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- Capacity and selection in immersive visual working memory following naturalistic object disappearance.Journal of vision · 2023Article
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Abstract
Space and time can each act as scaffolds for the individuation and selection of visual objects in working memory. Here we ask whether there is a trade-off between the use of space and time for visual working memory: whether observers will rely less on space, when memoranda can additionally be individuated through time. We tracked the use of space through directional biases in microsaccades after attention was directed to memory contents that had been encoded simultaneously or sequentially to the left and right of fixation. We found that spatial gaze biases were preserved when participants could (Experiment 1) and even when they had to (Experiment 2) additionally rely on time for object individuation. Thus, space remains a profound organizing medium for working memory even when other organizing sources are available and utilized, with no evidence for an obligatory trade-off between the use of space and time.
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