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Jiang, Yuhong V.; Swallow, Khena M.; Sun, Liwei – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2014
Visuospatial attention prioritizes regions of space for perceptual processing. Knowing how attended locations are represented is critical for understanding the architecture of attention. We examined the spatial reference frame of incidentally learned attention and asked how it is influenced by explicit, top-down knowledge. Participants performed a…
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, Spatial Ability, Attention, Bias
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Makovski, Tal; Watson, Leah M.; Koutstaal, Wilma; Jiang, Yuhong V. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2010
Visual working memory (WM) is traditionally considered a robust form of visual representation that survives changes in object motion, observer's position, and other visual transients. This article presents data that are inconsistent with the traditional view. We show that memory sensitivity is dramatically influenced by small variations in the…
Descriptors: Testing, Preschool Children, Short Term Memory, Long Term Memory