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Cameron Kyle-Davidson, Adrian G. Bors, Karla K. Evans
Visual memory schemas (VMS) are two-dimensional memorability maps that capture the most memorable regions of a given scene, predicting with a high degree of consistency human observer’s memory for the same images. These maps are hypothesized to correlate with a mental framework of knowledge employed by humans to encode…
Annabelle Goujon, Fabien Mathy, Simon Thorpe
What is the content and the format of visual memories in Long Term Memory (LTM)? Is it similar in adults and children? To address these issues, we investigated, in both adults and 9-year-old children, how visual LTM is affected over time and whether visual vs semantic features are affected differentially. In a learning…
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…
Hayley E. Pickering, Jessica L. Peters, Sheila G. Crewther
Although attention and early associative learning in preverbal children is predominantly driven by rapid eye-movements in response to moving visual stimuli and sounds/words (e.g., associating the word “bottle” with the object), the literature examining the role of visual attention and memory in ongoing vocabulary…
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…
Yue Wang, Peter Brunner, Jon T Willie, Runnan Cao + 1 more
Object recognition requires integrated processing that extends beyond the visual cortex, incorporating semantic and memory-related processes. However, it remains unclear how different attributes, such as visual, semantic, and memorability features, are encoded and interact during perception. Here, we recorded…
Emma Megla, Samuel R. Rosenthal, Wilma A. Bainbridge
Time has an immense influence on our memory. Truncated encoding leads to memory for only the ‘gist’ of an image, and long delays before recall result in generalized memories with few details. Here, we used crowdsourced scoring of hundreds of drawings made from memory after variable encoding (Experiment 1) and…
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…
John E. Kiat, Steven J. Luck
Visual working memory is essential for navigating through and interacting with complex real-world environments. It is therefore important to understand how natural visual inputs—characterized by complex contours, continuously varying feature gradients, and spatial relationships—are represented in working memory.…
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…
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…
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…
Runze Xia, Congchi Yin, Piji Li
Semantic Information Authors: ['Runze Xia' 'Congchi Yin' 'Piji Li'] The human visual system is capable of processing continuous streams of visual information, but how the brain encodes and retrieves recent visual memories during continuous visual processing remains unexplored. This study investigates the capacity of…
Thomas Hagen, Thomas Espeseth
Behavioral studies have shown that the memorability of images is similar across groups of people, suggesting that memorability is a function of the intrinsic properties of images, and is unrelated to people's individual experiences and traits. Deep learning networks can be trained on such properties and be used to…
John Towse, Mark Hurlstone, Amy Atkinson, Satoru Saito + 4 more
'Robert Logie' 'Graham J. Hitch' 'Richard J. Allen' 'Alan D. Baddeley'] We provide a broad overview of our original investigation of working memory; how the multicomponent model followed from our use of a dissociative methodology; and our intention that it should be simple, robust, and applicable. We describe how…
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…
Włodzisław Duch
Lack of vivid sensory imagery has recently become an active subject of research, under the name of aphantasia. Extremely vivid imagery, or hyperphantasia, is at the other end of the spectrum of individual differences. While most research has focused on visual imagery in this paper I argue that from a neuropsychological…
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…
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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…