The attention-weighted sample-size model of visual short-term memory: Attention capture predicts resource allocation and memory load
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The attention-weighted sample-size model of visual short-term memory : Attention capture predicts resource allocation and memory load. / Smith, Philip L.; Lilburn, Simon D.; Corbett, Elaine A.; Sewell, David K.; Kyllingsbæk, Søren.
I: Cognitive Psychology, Bind 89, 01.09.2016, s. 71-105.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - The attention-weighted sample-size model of visual short-term memory
T2 - Attention capture predicts resource allocation and memory load
AU - Smith, Philip L.
AU - Lilburn, Simon D.
AU - Corbett, Elaine A.
AU - Sewell, David K.
AU - Kyllingsbæk, Søren
PY - 2016/9/1
Y1 - 2016/9/1
N2 - We investigated the capacity of visual short-term memory (VSTM) in a phase discrimination task that required judgments about the configural relations between pairs of black and white features. Sewell et al. (2014) previously showed that VSTM capacity in an orientation discrimination task was well described by a sample-size model, which views VSTM as a resource comprised of a finite number of noisy stimulus samples. The model predicts the invariance of ∑i(di ′)2, the sum of squared sensitivities across items, for displays of different sizes. For phase discrimination, the set-size effect significantly exceeded that predicted by the sample-size model for both simultaneously and sequentially presented stimuli. Instead, the set-size effect and the serial position curves with sequential presentation were predicted by an attention-weighted version of the sample-size model, which assumes that one of the items in the display captures attention and receives a disproportionate share of resources. The choice probabilities and response time distributions from the task were well described by a diffusion decision model in which the drift rates embodied the assumptions of the attention-weighted sample-size model.
AB - We investigated the capacity of visual short-term memory (VSTM) in a phase discrimination task that required judgments about the configural relations between pairs of black and white features. Sewell et al. (2014) previously showed that VSTM capacity in an orientation discrimination task was well described by a sample-size model, which views VSTM as a resource comprised of a finite number of noisy stimulus samples. The model predicts the invariance of ∑i(di ′)2, the sum of squared sensitivities across items, for displays of different sizes. For phase discrimination, the set-size effect significantly exceeded that predicted by the sample-size model for both simultaneously and sequentially presented stimuli. Instead, the set-size effect and the serial position curves with sequential presentation were predicted by an attention-weighted version of the sample-size model, which assumes that one of the items in the display captures attention and receives a disproportionate share of resources. The choice probabilities and response time distributions from the task were well described by a diffusion decision model in which the drift rates embodied the assumptions of the attention-weighted sample-size model.
KW - Capacity limitations
KW - Diffusion model
KW - Sample-size model
KW - Short-term memory
KW - Working memory
U2 - 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2016.07.002
DO - 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2016.07.002
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 27494766
AN - SCOPUS:84979889780
VL - 89
SP - 71
EP - 105
JO - Cognitive Psychology
JF - Cognitive Psychology
SN - 0010-0285
ER -
ID: 179093189