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Direct linkMakovski, Tal – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2016
Visual working memory (VWM) is an online memory buffer that is typically assumed to be immune to source memory confusions. Accordingly, the few studies that have investigated the role of proactive interference (PI) in VWM tasks found only a modest PI effect at best. In contrast, a recent study has found a substantial PI effect in that performance…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Short Term Memory, Interference (Learning), Cognitive Processes
Amit, Elinor; Algom, Daniel; Trope, Yaacov – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2009
A series of 8 experiments investigated the association between pictorial and verbal representations and the psychological distance of the referent objects from the observer. The results showed that people better process pictures that represent proximal objects and words that represent distal objects than pictures that represent distal objects and…
Descriptors: Attention, Psychology, Experiments, Pictorial Stimuli
