scholarly journals Feature binding in visual short-term memory is unaffected by task-irrelevant changes of location, shape, and color

2010 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert H. Logie ◽  
James R. Brockmole ◽  
Snehlata Jaswal
Keyword(s):  
Short Term Memory ◽  
Feature Binding ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Term Memory ◽  
Visual Short Term Memory ◽  
Task Irrelevant

scholarly journals Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment Show Lower Visual Short-Term Memory Performance in Feature Binding Tasks

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raju P. Sapkota ◽  
Ian van der Linde ◽  
Nirmal Lamichhane ◽  
Tirthalal Upadhyaya ◽  
Shahina Pardhan
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Mild Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Short Term Memory ◽  
Feature Binding ◽  
Object Location ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Cognitive Changes ◽  
Term Memory ◽  
Visual Short Term Memory ◽  
Location Binding

Background: Early cognitive changes in people at risk of developing dementia may be detected using behavioral tests that examine the performance of typically affected brain areas, such as the hippocampi. An important cognitive function supported by the hippocampi is memory binding, in which object features are associated to create a unified percept. Aim: To compare visual short-term memory (VSTM) binding performance for object names, locations, and identities between a participant group known to be at higher risk of developing dementia (mild cognitive impairment [MCI]) and healthily aging controls. Methods: Ten MCI and 10 control participants completed five VSTM tests that differed in their requirement of remembering bound or unbound object names, locations, and identities, along with a standard neuropsychological test (Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination [ACE]-III). Results: The performance of the MCI participants was selectively and significantly lower than that of the healthily aging controls for memory tasks that required object-location or name-location binding. Conclusion: Tasks that measure unimodal (object-location) and crossmodal (name-location) binding performance appear to be particularly effective for the detection of early cognitive changes in those at higher risk of developing dementia due to Alzheimer’s disease.

Rapid Development of Feature Binding in Visual Short-Term Memory

2006 ◽  
Vol 17 (9) ◽  
pp. 781-787 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa M. Oakes ◽  
Shannon Ross-Sheehy ◽  
Steven J. Luck
Keyword(s):  
Short Term Memory ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Feature Binding ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Term Memory ◽  
Visual Short Term Memory

Dynamic Visual Noise Affects Visual Short-Term Memory for Surface Color, but not Spatial Location

2010 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Dent
Keyword(s):  
Short Term Memory ◽  
Spatial Location ◽  
Visual Noise ◽  
Dynamic Visual Noise ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Surface Color ◽  
Term Memory ◽  
Visual Short Term Memory ◽  
Experimental Tool ◽  
Spatial Locations

In two experiments participants retained a single color or a set of four spatial locations in memory. During a 5 s retention interval participants viewed either flickering dynamic visual noise or a static matrix pattern. In Experiment 1 memory was assessed using a recognition procedure, in which participants indicated if a particular test stimulus matched the memorized stimulus or not. In Experiment 2 participants attempted to either reproduce the locations or they picked the color from a whole range of possibilities. Both experiments revealed effects of dynamic visual noise (DVN) on memory for colors but not for locations. The implications of the results for theories of working memory and the methodological prospects for DVN as an experimental tool are discussed.

Time Window from Visual Images to Visual Short-Term Memory: Consolidation or Integration?

2004 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuhong Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Short Term Memory ◽  
Time Window ◽  
Short Interval ◽  
Visual Images ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Temporal Window ◽  
Term Memory ◽  
Visual Short Term Memory ◽  
Probe Task ◽  
Long Time

Abstract. When two dot arrays are briefly presented, separated by a short interval of time, visual short-term memory of the first array is disrupted if the interval between arrays is shorter than 1300-1500 ms ( Brockmole, Wang, & Irwin, 2002 ). Here we investigated whether such a time window was triggered by the necessity to integrate arrays. Using a probe task we removed the need for integration but retained the requirement to represent the images. We found that a long time window was needed for performance to reach asymptote even when integration across images was not required. Furthermore, such window was lengthened if subjects had to remember the locations of the second array, but not if they only conducted a visual search among it. We suggest that a temporal window is required for consolidation of the first array, which is vulnerable to disruption by subsequent images that also need to be memorized.

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