Remember some or remember all? : Ageing and strategy effects in visual working memory.

Atkinson, Amy L. and Baddeley, Alan D. and Allen, Richard J. (2018) Remember some or remember all? : Ageing and strategy effects in visual working memory. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71 (7). pp. 1561-1573. ISSN 1747-0218

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Abstract

Recent research (Bengson & Luck, 2015) has indicated that visual working memory capacity for unidimensional items might be boosted by focusing on all presented items, as opposed to a subset of them. However, it is not clear whether the same outcomes would be observed if more complex items were used which require feature binding, a potentially more demanding task. The current experiments therefore examined the effects of encoding strategy using multidimensional items in tasks that required feature binding. Effects were explored across a range of different age groups (Experiment 1) and task conditions (Experiment 2). In both experiments, participants performed significantly better when focusing on a subset of items, regardless of age or methodological variations, suggesting this is the optimal strategy to employ when several multidimensional items are presented and binding is required. Implications for task interpretation and visual working memory function are discussed.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
Uncontrolled Keywords:
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Subjects:
?? agingneuropsychology and physiological psychologygeneral psychologyexperimental and cognitive psychologyphysiologyphysiology (medical)psychology(all) ??
ID Code:
162036
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Deposited On:
08 Nov 2021 16:30
Refereed?:
Yes
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Published
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16 Jul 2024 11:44