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Memory fidelity explains opposing biases in visual working memory. Manipulating memory fidelity can cause attraction or repulsion effects, with subjective fidelity ratings predicting these outcomes.

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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Visual Perception

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  • Visual working memory can exhibit attraction (remembering objects as more similar) or repulsion (remembering objects as more different).
  • The underlying mechanisms and conditions for these opposing memory biases are not well understood.
  • Existing theoretical frameworks do not fully explain these contrasting memory dynamics.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate memory fidelity as a unifying factor for attraction and repulsion effects in visual working memory.
  • To demonstrate that manipulating memory fidelity can induce either attraction or repulsion.
  • To explore the predictive power of subjective fidelity ratings on memory biases.

Main Methods:

  • Three experiments were conducted with adult participants (N=30 per experiment).
  • Memory fidelity was manipulated experimentally.
  • Subjective ratings of memory fidelity were collected on a trial-by-trial basis.

Main Results:

  • Memory fidelity was shown to be a unifying dimension for both attraction and repulsion.
  • Experimental manipulation of memory fidelity successfully induced either attraction or repulsion effects.
  • Subjective fidelity ratings reliably predicted the occurrence of attraction or repulsion for individual trials.

Conclusions:

  • Memory fidelity offers a novel framework for understanding opposing biases in visual working memory.
  • These findings have implications for computational models of visual working memory.
  • The results contribute to the broader literature on memory and perceptual biases.