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SUBMITTER: Fougnie D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3279121 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fougnie Daryl D Alvarez George A GA
Journal of vision 20111006 12
The world is composed of features and objects and this structure may influence what is stored in working memory. It is widely believed that the content of memory is object-based: Memory stores integrated objects, not independent features. We asked participants to report the color and orientation of an object and found that memory errors were largely independent: Even when one of the object's features was entirely forgotten, the other feature was often reported. This finding contradicts object-ba ...[more]