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Eduardo Camina, Francisco Güell
This review aims to classify and clarify, from a neuroanatomical, neurophysiological, and psychological perspective, different memory models that are currently widespread in the literature as well as to describe their origins. We believe it is important to consider previous developments without which one cannot…
Wilma A. Bainbridge, Elizabeth H. Hall, Chris I. Baker
Understanding the content of memory is essential to teasing apart its underlying mechanisms. While recognition tests have commonly been used to probe memory, it is difficult to establish what specific content is driving performance. Here, we instead focus on free recall of real-world scenes, and quantify the content of…
Haluk Öğmen, Michael H. Herzog
Memory is an essential component of cognition and disorders of memory have significant individual and societal costs. The Atkinson-Shiffrin “modal model” forms the foundation of our understanding of human memory. It consists of three stores: Sensory Memory (SM), whose visual component is called iconic memory…
Mark W. Schurgin, Corbin A. Cunningham, Howard E. Egeth, Timothy F. Brady
Humans have remarkable visual long-term memory abilities, capable of storing thousands of objects with significant detail. However, it remains unknown how such memory is utilized during the short-term maintenance of information. Specifically, if people have a previously encoded memory for an item, how does this affect…
Yujin Tang, Chenming Shang, Ruize Xu, Nikhil Singh
Research on agent memory has matured rapidly, but almost entirely on the text side: few existing benchmarks ask, in an interactive environment, when an agent genuinely needs to remember what it saw rather than what it could write down. We introduce DMV-Bench (Code: https://github.com/yyyujintang/DMV-Bench), the first…
Amit Rawal, Michael J. Wolff, Rosanne L. Rademaker
Visual working memory allows for the brief maintenance of information to serve behavioral goals. It has been shown that when the specific action required to serve a future goal is predictable, people can flexibly change a visual memory representation to incorporate an action-based one, demonstrating the goal-oriented…
Alexandra M. Murray, Anna C. Nobre, Ian A. Clark, André M. Cravo + 1 more
'Mark G. Stokes'] When a memory is forgotten, is it lost forever? Our study shows that selective attention can restore forgotten items to visual short-term memory (VSTM). In our two experiments, all stimuli presented in a memory array were designed to be equally task relevant during encoding. During the retention…
Xiaohan (Hannah) Guo, Wilma A. Bainbridge
Adults have been shown to consistently remember and forget certain images despite large individual differences, suggesting a population-wide sensitivity to an image’s intrinsic memorability—a measure of how successfully an image is remembered. While a decade of research has focused on image memorability among adults…
Simon Weber, Thomas Christophel, Kai Görgen, Joram Soch + 1 more
It has been suggested that visual images are memorized across brief periods of time by vividly imagining them as if they still were there. Such visual imagery has been proposed as a key mechanism underlying working memory. However, the ability to evoke visual imagery varies substantially across individuals, raising the…
Minghao Guo, Qingyue Jiao, Zeru Shi, Yihao Quan + 13 more
Long-term agent memory is increasingly multimodal, yet existing evaluations rarely test whether agents preserve the visual evidence needed for later reasoning. In prior work, many visually grounded questions can be answered using only captions or textual traces, allowing answers to be inferred without preserving the…
Cameron Kyle-Davidson, Adrian G. Borş, Karla K. Evans
Visual memory schema (VMS) maps show which regions of an image cause that image to be remembered or falsely remembered. Previous work has succeeded in generating low resolution VMS maps using convolutional neural networks. We instead approach this problem as an image-to-image translation task making use of a…
Chaoxiong Ye, Lijing Guo, Nathan Wang, Qiang Liu + 1 more
Human observers often exhibit remarkable consistency in remembering specific visual details, such as certain face images. This phenomenon is commonly attributed to visual memorability, a collection of stimulus attributes that enhance the long-term retention of visual information. However, the exact contributions of…
Yuang Cao, Jiachen Zou, Chen Wei, Quanying Liu
Human memory exhibits significant vulnerability in cognitive tasks and daily life. Comparisons between visual working memory and new perceptual input (e.g., during cognitive tasks) can lead to unintended memory distortions. Previous studies have reported systematic memory distortions after perceptual comparison, but…
William J. Harrison, Paul M. Bays
The sensory recruitment hypothesis states that visual short-term memory is maintained in the same visual cortical areas that initially encode a stimulus' features. Although it is well established that the distance between features in visual cortex determines their visibility, a limitation known as crowding, it is…
William J. Harrison, Paul M. Bays
The sensory recruitment hypothesis states that visual short term memory is maintained in the same visual cortical areas that initially encode a stimulus’ features. Although it is well established that the distance between features in visual cortex determines their visibility, a limitation known as crowding, it is…
Elyana Saad, Juha Silvanto
Recent research indicates there is overlap in the neural resources used during imagery and visual short-term memory. But do visual short-term memory and visual imagery operate on similar representations during recall? Here we investigated this question by asking participants to perform a delayed match to sample task…
Melissa Le-Hoa Võ, Zoya Bylinskii, Aude Oliva
Some images stick in your mind for days or even years, while others seem to vanish quickly from memory. We tested whether differences in image memorability 1) are already evident immediately after encoding, 2) produce different rates of forgetting, and 3) whether the retrieval of images with different memorability…
Limor Brook, Olga Kreichman, Shaimaa Masarwa, Sharon Gilaie-Dotan
It is unclear whether memory for images of poorer visibility (as low contrast or small size) will be lower due to weak signals elicited in early visual processing stages, or perhaps better since their processing may entail top-down processes (as effort and attention) associated with deeper encoding. We have recently…
Wilma Bainbridge
When we experience an event, it feels like our previous experiences, our interpretations of that event (e.g., aesthetics, emotions), and our current state will determine how we will remember it. However, recent work has revealed a strong sway of the visual world itself in influencing what we remember and forget.…
Hangyeol Kang, Slava Voloshynovskiy, Nadia Magnenat Thalmann
Memory is fundamental to social interaction, enabling humans to recall meaningful past experiences and adapt their behavior accordingly based on the context. However, most current social robots and embodied agents rely on non-selective, text-based memory, limiting their ability to support personalized, context-aware…
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Molecular property prediction is a fundamental task in computational chemistry with critical applications in drug discovery and materials science. While recent works have explored Large Language Models (LLMs) for this task, they primarily rely on textual molecular representations such as SMILES/SELFIES, which can be…
Marc W. Howard
The idea that memory behavior relies on a gradually-changing internal state has a long history in mathematical psychology. This chapter traces this line of thought from statistical learning theory in the 1950s, through distributed memory models in the latter part of the 20th century and early part of the 21st century…