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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Behavioral and neural studies suggest sequential visual working memory.
  • The relationship between sequential and simultaneous visual working memory individual differences is unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if individual differences in sequential visual working memory paradigms mirror those in simultaneous change detection paradigms.
  • To compare accuracy and capacity estimates between sequential and simultaneous visual working memory.

Main Methods:

  • Sequential and simultaneous visual working memory paradigms were employed.
  • Accuracy and capacity were estimated across various set sizes.
  • Individual differences were assessed within subjects using both paradigms.

Main Results:

  • Sequential presentation showed similar working memory capacity bottlenecks as simultaneous presentation.
  • Accuracy and capacity estimates were comparable between sequential and simultaneous paradigms.
  • Individual differences strongly correlated between sequential and simultaneous paradigms across set sizes.
  • Larger sample analysis (n=200) confirmed similar variance and statistics for both paradigms at set size 6.

Conclusions:

  • Individual differences in visual working memory are consistent across sequential and simultaneous presentation paradigms.
  • Both sequential and simultaneous paradigms likely engage similar underlying working memory resources.
  • Findings support the use of sequential paradigms for assessing individual differences in visual working memory.