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  • Neuroscience
  • Computer Vision

Background:

  • Visual stimulus memorability is influenced by conceptual and perceptual factors.
  • Higher-level properties like "meaningfulness" significantly predict memory recall across populations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the influence of affect (valence and arousal) on the memorability of scene images.
  • To create and utilize a new dataset (VAMOS) of natural scene images with associated affect and memorability scores.

Main Methods:

  • Conducted two experiments to assess the relationship between image-evoked affect and memorability.
  • Collected valence, arousal, and memorability scores for hundreds of natural scene images in the VAMOS dataset.

Main Results:

  • Memorability scores were highly reliable for scene images across a wide range of arousal and valence.
  • Valence and arousal were significant but weak predictors of scene image memorability, accounting for <8% of variance.
  • Slightly negative, highly arousing scenes were most memorable; extremely positive or unarousing images were most forgettable.

Conclusions:

  • Evoked affect contributes to, but does not fully explain, scene image memorability.
  • Image memorability is best predicted by a combination of various visual features, potentially interacting in complex ways.