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  • Visual Perception

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  • Natural environments offer rich spatiotemporal cues for object differentiation.
  • Visual working memory (VWM) utilizes spatial and temporal properties for object reference.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate which spatial and temporal properties are encoded for reference frames in VWM.
  • To determine if VWM relies on absolute or relative item information.

Main Methods:

  • A spatiotemporal color change-detection task was employed.
  • Spatial and/or temporal structures were transformed at retrieval (ordinal, relational, global).

Main Results:

  • Ordinal and relational transformations of spatial or temporal structures impaired VWM performance.
  • Global transformations did not significantly affect performance.

Conclusions:

  • VWM reference frames are primarily defined by interitem relations (order and relative distance).
  • Both spatial and temporal dimensions in VWM share similar metrical properties.