The visual arrays task…visual storage capacity or attention control?

**The uploaded manuscript is still in preparation** In this study, we tested the relationship between visual arrays tasks and working memory capacity and attention control. Specifically, we tested whether task design (selection or non-selection demands) impacted the relationship between visual arrays measures and constructs of working memory capacity and attention control. Using analyses from 4 independent data sets we showed that the degree to which visual arrays measures rely on selection influences the degree to which they reflect domain-general attention control.

Features of diagnostic cognitive impairment for faces of genesial age

The diseases accompanying with development cognitive of a dysfunction, represent a major medical and social problem. It is conditioned on the one hand by high abundance of the given kind of a pathology, and on the other hand by considerable costs of treatment and after treatment ill. There is enough often cognitive of disturbance meet for young faces. The development of disturbance of maximum crustal functions is in this case conditioned by contagions, endocrine disturbance, craniocerebral traumas and series of other morbid conditions. Overseen at cognitive disturbance the personal and behavioral disturbance are capable to render negative influencing on a genesial function, pregnancy and its outcomes. Large percent cognitive of disturbance overseen for young, falls into to the so-called potentially reversible forms, that allows to hope for a favorable outcome of management of such patients at the correctly planned therapy and tactics of an after treatment. One of key aspects is the valuable well-timed diagnostic cognitive of disturbance. Now in diagnostic looking up the considerable role is allocated to methods functional neuroimaging. One of such methods is functional magnetic-resonant tomography. The research, conducted by us, has allowed to determine specific zones, accountable for implementation of visual storage and reproduction. The obtained data can be utilised in complex diagnostic cognitive of disturbance, in particular on up to dementia of stage for faces of genesial age

New Estimate for Storage Time in Sensory Memory

Sperling in 1960 reported information in sensory storage remained for about one sec. In 1974 Phillips reported that information in sensory storage passed on to short-term visual memory after 100 msec. To distinguish between these alternatives, 55 subjects received 36 trials in which two matrices of letters, familiar shapes, or non-familiar shapes were presented successively in a recognition task. The interstimulus interval varied systematically. Results showed that as the interval increased, performance decreased. Further, memory for letters and familiar shapes was superior. Finally, there were no differences among letters, familiar shapes, and non-familiar shapes at the .25-sec. interval. At the .5-sec. interval, performance for familiar shapes was superior to performance for non-familiar shapes. It was concluded that information transfers to short-term visual storage after .25 sec.