Do Object Refixations During Scene Viewing Indicate Rehearsal In Visual Working Memory?
- ASU Author/Contributor (non-ASU co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Chris Dickinson Ph.D., Associate Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- Appalachian State University (ASU )
- Web Site: https://library.appstate.edu/
Abstract: Do refixations serve a rehearsal function in visual working memory (VWM)? We analyzed refixations from observers freely viewing multiobject scenes. An eyetracker was used to limit the viewing of a scene to a specified number of objects fixated after the target (intervening objects), followed by a four-alternative forced choice recognition test. Results showed that the probability of target refixation increased with the number of fixated intervening objects, and these refixations produced a 16% accuracy benefit over the first five intervening-object conditions. Additionally, refixations most frequently occurred after fixations on only one to two other objects, regardless of the intervening-object condition. These behaviors could not be explained by random or minimally constrained computational models; a VWM component was required to completely describe these data. We explain these findings in terms of a monitor–refixate rehearsal system: The activations of object representations in VWM are monitored, with refixations occurring when these activations decrease suddenly.
Do Object Refixations During Scene Viewing Indicate Rehearsal In Visual Working Memory?
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- Publication
- Zelinsky, G.J., Loschky, L.C. & Dickinson, C.A. (2011). Do object refixations during scene viewing indicate rehearsal in visual working memory?. Mem Cogn 39, 600–613 (2011). https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-010-0048-x. Publisher version of record available at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13421-010-0048-x
- Language: English
- Date: 2010
- Keywords
- Eye movements, Scene perception, Active vision, Memory rehearsal