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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Computational modeling

Background:

  • Visual working memory (VWM) involves storing and manipulating visual information.
  • Objects can share semantic category information (e.g., fruits).
  • The impact of category coherence on VWM performance is not fully understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how stimulus category coherence affects VWM performance.
  • To determine if participants utilize category information when it is beneficial for task completion.

Main Methods:

  • Two behavioral experiments using a change-detection paradigm.
  • Rational analysis employing an ideal observer based on a Bayesian model.

Main Results:

  • Both participants and the ideal observer showed improved performance on coherent trials.
  • Participants utilized category coherence when the ideal observer indicated its high value.
  • A bias towards responding "same" was observed in both groups, particularly on change trials.

Conclusions:

  • Category coherence can influence VWM performance in a task- and stimulus-dependent manner.
  • Participant behavior often aligns with optimal strategies for maximizing task performance.
  • Findings may reconcile conflicting results in the VWM literature.