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Creating Objects and Object Categories for Studying Perception and Perceptual Learning

Creating Objects and Object Categories for Studying Perception and Perceptual Learning

Published on: November 2, 2012

Object-based benefits without object-based representations.

Daryl Fougnie¹, Sarah M Cormiea, George A Alvarez

¹Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. darylfougnie@gmail.com

Journal of Experimental Psychology. General

|October 17, 2012

Summary

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Visual working memory is object-based for performance benefits but feature-based for representational failures. This study shows features are not integrated into single objects, revising object-based memory concepts.

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Psychology
Neuroscience
Visual Perception

Background:

Influential theories propose visual working memory (VWM) uses integrated object representations.
The 'same object benefit' suggests remembering features of one object is easier than distributed features.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate whether VWM stores features as integrated object representations.
To test if the 'same object benefit' relies on integrated feature storage.

Main Methods:

Replicated the 'same object benefit' in a visual working memory task.
Manipulated the number of objects and features to assess representational units.

Main Results:

Confirmed the 'same object benefit': 10 features in 5 objects were remembered better than in 10 objects.
Found memory for one object's feature was largely independent of another feature within the same object.
Demonstrated that integrated representations do not drive the object benefit.

Conclusions:

Results challenge the notion of integrated object representations in VWM.
Propose VWM is object-based for performance enhancement but feature-based for representational failure.
Suggests a revision of current models of object-based memory representations.