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ReviewCognitive processing2024

Visual working memory for natural scenes: challenges and opportunities.

Steven J Luck, John E Kiat

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Review in Cognitive processing, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. A population vector model of visual working memory for real-world scenes.Journal of experimental psychology. General · 2026
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  2. A Population Vector Model of Visual Working Memory for Real-World Scenes.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Steven J LuckCenter for Mind and Brain, University of California, Davis, USA. sjluck@ucdavis.edu.
John E KiatCenter for Mind and Brain, University of California, Davis, USA.

Funding

Using Population Vectors to Understand Visual Working Memory for Natural StimuliR01EY033329 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · PI LUCK, STEVEN J · 2022 to 2025
$1.8M
NEI NIH HHS R01 EY033329
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Visual working memory is a fundamental cognitive process that people use thousands of times each day as they engage in visually guided behavior. Thus, it is important to understand how the natural visual input-which consists of complex, spatially organized, continuously varying features-is represented in visual working memory. However, most research has used arrays of discrete, artificial objects defined by simple features, and existing formal models of visual working memory cannot be applied to natural scenes. In this paper, we identify 3 key aspects of natural scenes that are not captured by existing formal models of visual working memory, along with 2 distinct types of attention that must be considered. The goal is to clearly define the challenges and opportunities for moving models of visual working memory from arrays of artificial objects to natural scenes.

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AttentionMemory, Short-TermVisual PerceptionHumansPhotic Stimulation

Identifiers

PMID39123057
PMCPMC11365787

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