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Scene memory is more detailed than you think: the role of categories in visual long-term memory.

ABSTRACT: Observers can store thousands of object images in visual long-term memory with high fidelity, but the fidelity of scene representations in long-term memory is not known. Here, we probed scene-representation fidelity by varying the number of studied exemplars in different scene categories and testing memory using exemplar-level foils. Observers viewed thousands of scenes over 5.5 hr and then completed a series of forced-choice tests. Memory performance was high, even with up to 64 scenes from the same category in memory. Moreover, there was only a 2% decrease in accuracy for each doubling of the number of studied scene exemplars. Surprisingly, this degree of categorical interference was similar to the degree previously demonstrated for object memory. Thus, although scenes have often been defined as a superset of objects, our results suggest that scenes and objects may be entities at a similar level of abstraction in visual long-term memory.

SUBMITTER: Konkle T

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3397240 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Scene memory is more detailed than you think: the role of categories in visual long-term memory.

Konkle Talia T Brady Timothy F TF Alvarez George A GA Oliva Aude A

Psychological science 20101004 11

Observers can store thousands of object images in visual long-term memory with high fidelity, but the fidelity of scene representations in long-term memory is not known. Here, we probed scene-representation fidelity by varying the number of studied exemplars in different scene categories and testing memory using exemplar-level foils. Observers viewed thousands of scenes over 5.5 hr and then completed a series of forced-choice tests. Memory performance was high, even with up to 64 scenes from the ...[more]

PMID: 20921574

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