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SUBMITTER: Tabi YA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6590415 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tabi Younes Adam YA Husain Masud M Manohar Sanjay G SG
British journal of psychology (London, England : 1953) 20190102 2
Visuospatial working memory allows us to hold multiple visual objects over short delays. It is typically tested by presenting an array of objects, then after a delay showing a 'probe' indicating which memory item to recall or reproduce by adjusting a target feature. However, recent studies demonstrate that information at the time of probe can disrupt recall. Here, in three experiments we test whether traditional memory probes, which contain features that compete with the feature to be recalled, ...[more]