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Ngiam, William X. Q.; Khaw, Kimberley L. C.; Holcombe, Alex O.; Goodbourn, Patrick T. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2019
Visual working memory (VWM) is limited in both the "capacity" of information it can retain and the "rate" at which it encodes that information. We examined the influence of stimulus complexity on these 2 limitations of VWM. Observers performed a change-detection task with English letters of various fonts or letters from…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Alphabets, Familiarity, Difficulty Level
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Scullin, Michael K.; McDaniel, Mark A.; Shelton, Jill T.; Lee, Ji Hae – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2010
We investigated whether focal/nonfocal effects (e.g., Einstein et al., 2005) in prospective memory (PM) are explained by cue differences in monitoring difficulty. In Experiment 1, we show that syllable cues (used in Einstein et al., 2005) are more difficult to monitor for than are word cues; however, initial-letter cues (in words) are similar in…
Descriptors: Memory, Intention, Cues, Alphabets