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Visual memory of a co-actor's target during joint search
Chifumi Sakata1, Yoshiyuki Ueda2, Yusuke Moriguchi3
1Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Yoshida Hon-Machi, Sakyo-Ku, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan. sakata.chifumi@gmail.com.
Psychological Research
|March 28, 2023
Summary
Pairs searching for different items together remember a partner's target, but don't form search-facilitating memories with it. This impacts joint visual search and memory.
Area of Science:
- Cognitive Psychology
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Neuroscience
Background:
- Joint action research shows memory for partner's target in turn-taking tasks.
- Real-world joint search involves simultaneous targets, creating uncertainty.
- Contextual cueing paradigm facilitates search through associative memory.
Purpose of the Study:
- Investigate memory for a partner's target during parallel visual search.
- Determine if associative memory with distractors forms for a partner's target.
- Explore implications for joint action and collaborative search.
Main Methods:
- Participant pairs searched for distinct targets among multiple objects.
- Contextual cueing paradigm used during a learning phase.
- Memory tests and transfer phases assessed target recognition and search facilitation.
Main Results:
- Partner's target was better recognized than unsearched targets.
- No search facilitation was observed in the transfer phase.
- Associative memory between partner's target and distractors was not formed.
Conclusions:
- Individuals accumulate partner's target in memory during parallel search.
- Associative memory with distractors for partner's target does not facilitate search.
- Findings suggest limitations in forming search-aiding memories in complex joint search scenarios.
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