Retro-dimension-cue benefit in visual working memory
Ye, C., Hu, Z., Ristaniemi, T., Gendron, M., & Liu, Q. (2016). Retro-dimension-cue benefit in visual working memory. Scientific Reports, 6, Article 35573. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep35573
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In visual working memory (VWM) tasks, participants’ performance can be improved by a retro-objectcue.
However, previous studies have not investigated whether participants’ performance can also
be improved by a retro-dimension-cue. Three experiments investigated this issue. We used a recall
task with a retro-dimension-cue in all experiments. In Experiment 1, we found benefits from retrodimension-cues
compared to neutral cues. This retro-dimension-cue benefit is reflected in an increased
probability of reporting the target, but not in the probability of reporting the non-target, as well as
increased precision with which this item is remembered. Experiment 2 replicated the retro-dimensioncue
benefit and showed that the length of the blank interval after the cue disappeared did not influence
recall performance. Experiment 3 replicated the results of Experiment 2 with a lower memory load.
Our studies provide evidence that there is a robust retro-dimension-cue benefit in VWM. Participants
can use internal attention to flexibly allocate cognitive resources to a particular dimension of memory
representations. The results also support the feature-based storing hypothesis.
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