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The Effect of Visual Working Memory Training Could Transfer Across Stimuli
Taiyong Bi1, Xiaogang Wang2, Hui Kou1
1Center for Mental Health Research in School of Management, Zunyi Medical University, Guizhou, People's Republic of China.
Psychology Research and Behavior Management
|February 6, 2020
Summary
Visual working memory training enhances performance and partly transfers to new stimuli. However, this learning effect may not extend to general memory span tasks.
Area of Science:
- Cognitive Psychology
- Neuroscience
Background:
- Working memory is crucial for cognition and improves with learning.
- The impact of visual working memory training and its transfer effects remain understudied.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the learning effects of visual working memory training.
- To examine the generalization of these effects to different stimuli and tasks.
Main Methods:
- A delayed match-to-sample task was used to assess visual working memory for faces and houses.
- Participants underwent ten days of training, with assessments before and after.
Main Results:
- Training significantly improved visual working memory accuracy.
- Learning effects partially transferred to a visual working memory task with novel stimuli.
- No significant transfer was observed for a memory span task.
Conclusions:
- Visual working memory training can enhance performance.
- Training may influence the shared processing mechanisms across different visual stimuli within working memory.
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