期刊
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-GENERAL
卷 144, 期 4, 页码 744-763出版社
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/xge0000076
关键词
visual working memory; delayed estimation; color perception; categorization
资金
- Research Expansion Award
- Walter L. Clark Fellowship Fund
- [NSF CAREER BCS-0954749]
- Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie [0954749] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Behavioral and Cognitive Sci [0954749] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Categorization with basic color terms is an intuitive and universal aspect of color perception. Yet research on visual working memory capacity has largely assumed that only continuous estimates within color space are relevant to memory. As a result, the influence of color categories on working memory remains unknown. We propose a dual content model of color representation in which color matches to objects that are either present (perception) or absent (memory) integrate category representations along with estimates of specific values on a continuous scale (particulars). We develop and test the model through 4 experiments. In a first experiment pair, participants reproduce a color target, both with and without a delay, using a recently influential estimation paradigm. In a second experiment pair, we use standard methods in color perception to identify boundary and focal colors in the stimulus set. The main results are that responses drawn from working memory are significantly biased away from category boundaries and toward category centers. Importantly, the same pattern of results is present without a memory delay. The proposed dual content model parsimoniously explains these results, and it should replace prevailing single content models in studies of visual working memory. More broadly, the model and the results demonstrate how the main consequence of visual working memory maintenance is the amplification of category related biases and stimulus-specific variability that originate in perception.
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