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Visual working memory phenomena based on categorical tasks replicate using a continuous measure: A simple interpretation and some methodological considerations

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ATTENTION PERCEPTION & PSYCHOPHYSICS
卷 85, 期 5, 页码 1733-1745

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SPRINGER
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-023-02656-x

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Visual working memory; Attention

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An increasingly popular method for studying visuospatial working memory assumes variations in stored features of objects subject to internal noise. This study examined the replicability of phenomena in memory for objects using a continuous measure of feature recall. The results were similar to previous findings using categorical measures, with minor differences. The convergence between methods suggests a simple analogy between categorical memory and categorical perception.
An increasingly popular method for investigating visuospatial working memory assumes stored features of objects such as color and orientation vary along continua subject to internal noise. It adapts the stimulus adjustment procedure from perceptual psychophysics to assess the precision with which stored features are represented in memory. This contrasts with methods using discrete, categorical measures of feature retention. The current study examined the replicability of some phenomena documented using conventional methodology when assessed using a continuous measure of feature recall. These concern memory for a short series of objects and include effects of recency, prioritizing an individual object, and presenting an irrelevant additional object after the last item (a poststimulus 'suffix'). In two experiments we find broadly similar results using a continuous measure of color-orientation binding to those obtained previously using categorical measures, with small differences we regard as minor. We interpret the convergence between methods in terms of a simple analogy between categorical memory and categorical perception whereby categorical retrieval involves the application of a discrete criterion to an underlying continuum of stored feature information. We conclude by discussing some of the advantages and limitations of continuous and categorical measures of retention.

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