Journal article
The Adaptive Nature of Visual Working Memory
Current directions in psychological science : a journal of the American Psychological Society, v 23(3), pp 164-170
01 Jun 2014
Abstract
A growing body of scientific evidence suggests that visual working memory and statistical learning are intrinsically linked. Although visual working memory is severely resource limited, in many cases, it makes efficient use of its available resources by adapting to statistical regularities in the visual environment. However, experimental evidence also suggests that there are clear limits and biases in statistical learning. This raises the intriguing possibility that performance limitations observed in visual working memory tasks can to some degree be explained in terms of limits and biases in statistical-learning ability, rather than limits in memory capacity.
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- Title
- The Adaptive Nature of Visual Working Memory
- Creators
- A. Emin Orhan - NYU, Ctr Neural Sci, New York, NY 10003 USAChris R. Sims - Drexel Univ, Dept Psychol, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USARobert A. Jacobs - University of RochesterDavid C. Knill - University of Rochester
- Publication Details
- Current directions in psychological science : a journal of the American Psychological Society, v 23(3), pp 164-170
- Publisher
- Sage
- Number of pages
- 7
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences (Psychology)
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000337705800002
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84901797332
- Other Identifier
- 991021864306404721
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- Domestic collaboration
- Web of Science research areas
- Psychology, Multidisciplinary