Visual short-term memory: Central capacity limitations in short-term consolidation Export

@article{citeulike:1572840, abstract = {We investigated whether there are central capacity limitations on consolidating information in visual short-term memory (VSTM). Subjects performed a visual memory task (deciding if two displays were the same or different) and a speeded tone pitch discrimination. When the tasks were performed concurrently, interference was observed in both tasks, suggesting that VSTM consolidation requires central resources. The cost of consolidating information in VSTM (as indexed by tone task performance) did not change as the number of to-be-consolidated items was increased, in contrast to previous work that used verbal materials (Jolic\œur \& Dell'Acqua, 1998). Results from Experiments 2 and 3 suggest that this apparent difference reflected a contribution from verbal coding in previous studies. Experiments 1 and 4 provided evidence that the capacity limitations had a central locus and were not merely due to preparing for a secondary task.}, author = {Stevanovski, Biljana and Jolic\œur, Pierre}, citeulike-article-id = {1572840}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13506280600871917}, doi = {10.1080/13506280600871917}, journal = {Visual Cognition}, keywords = {dual-task, executive, memory, working}, number = {5}, pages = {532--563}, posted-at = {2008-08-29 15:23:39}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Psychology Press}, title = {Visual short-term memory: Central capacity limitations in short-term consolidation}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13506280600871917}, volume = {15}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1572840 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1572840 N2 - We investigated whether there are central capacity limitations on consolidating information in visual short-term memory (VSTM). Subjects performed a visual memory task (deciding if two displays were the same or different) and a speeded tone pitch discrimination. When the tasks were performed concurrently, interference was observed in both tasks, suggesting that VSTM consolidation requires central resources. The cost of consolidating information in VSTM (as indexed by tone task performance) did not change as the number of to-be-consolidated items was increased, in contrast to previous work that used verbal materials (Jolicœur & Dell'Acqua, 1998). Results from Experiments 2 and 3 suggest that this apparent difference reflected a contribution from verbal coding in previous studies. Experiments 1 and 4 provided evidence that the capacity limitations had a central locus and were not merely due to preparing for a secondary task. IS - 5 JF - Visual Cognition EP - 563 TI - Visual short-term memory: Central capacity limitations in short-term consolidation PB - Psychology Press VL - 15 SP - 532 KW - dual-task KW - executive KW - memory KW - working AU - Stevanovski, Biljana AU - Jolicœur, Pierre PY - 2007/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13506280600871917 ER -