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Zsuzsa Kaldy, Natasha Sigala
Visual working memory (VWM) allows us to temporarily maintain and manipulate visual information in order to solve a task. The study of the brain mechanisms underlying this function began more than a half century ago, with Scoville and Milner's ([6]) seminal discoveries with amnesic patients. As of 2016, more than 4000…
S. Burnett Heyes, N. Zokaei, M. Husain
Title: Highlights 1. • Longitudinal development of visual working memory (VWM) was assessed in children. 2. • Recall precision rather than span or item capacity was measured. 3. • VWM precision increased significantly over two years. 4. • Modelling revealed this was due to decreased variability (noise) in VWM. 5. •…
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…
Hagit Magen, Marius V. Peelen, Tatiana Aloi Emmanouil, Zaifeng Gao
As we move around in the world, we process a vast amount of visual information while we interact with objects or events, navigate our way in the environment, and process emotional and social information. Due to changes and interruptions in the visual input, for example during eye movements, task performance often…
Rania Qais, Robert T. Knight, Shlomit Yuval-Greenberg
Visual working memory (VWM) is traditionally studied while constraining eye movements and limiting access to visual input, yet in natural vision humans constantly explore and resample their environment. Only a few studies have examined VWM utilization when participants were allowed to interact with the environment and…
Julia Papiernik-Kłodzińska, Simon Hviid Del Pin, Kristian Sandberg, Michał Wierzchoń + 2 more
Whether early visual cortex (V1) is essential for visual working memory (vWM) performance remains a topic of scientific debate. The current study aimed to expand previous research findings by examining whether idiosyncratic structural properties of V1, particularly visual field inhomogeneities such as visual field and…
Andre Sahakian, Damian Koevoet, Chris L.E. Paffen, Surya Gayet + 1 more
The ability to store information in visual working memory is essential to plan and successfully execute memory-guided actions in natural human behavior. Typically, visual working memory research investigates how storing affects subsequent action. In doing so, however, the importance of how the action affects prior…
Cherie Zhou, Monicque M. Lorist, Sebastiaan Mathôt
Visual information can be stored as continuous as well as categorical representations in visual working memory (VWM) to guide subsequent behavior. Yet it is still unclear what determines whether VWM is represented as continuous or categorical information, or as a mix of both. Recent studies have shown that color VWM…
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…
Chaoxiong Ye, Qianru Xu, Xinyang Liu, Piia Astikainen + 3 more
'Zhonghua Hu' 'Qiang Liu'] Previous studies have associated visual working memory (VWM) capacity with the use of internal attention. Retrocues, which direct internal attention to a particular object or feature dimension, can improve VWM performance (i.e., retrocue benefit, RCB). However, so far, no study has…
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…
William L. Gronewald, Vanessa G. Lee, Roger W. Remington
Many daily activities require us to hold visual images in memory for durations ranging from milliseconds to days or years. Previous research divides visual memory into three categories: sensory (or iconic) memory, visual working memory (VWM), and visual long-term memory (VLTM; Phillips & Christie, ). Iconic memory…
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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…
Emilio Salinas, Bashirul I Sheikh
Our ability to recall details from a remembered image depends on a single mechanism that is engaged from the very moment the image disappears from view.
Jeroen D. Silvis, Artem V. Belopolsky, Jozua W. I. Murris, Mieke Donk + 1 more
Attended stimuli are typically remembered better than those that are ignored. This simple fact suggests that visual attention serves as a gateway to memory. Interestingly, however, Desimone and Duncan pointed out that the relationship between attentional selection and memory is bi-directional. Memory mechanisms can be…
Mitchell R. Riley, Christos Constantinidis
The prefrontal cortex is activated during working memory, as evidenced by fMRI results in human studies and neurophysiological recordings in animal models. Persistent activity during the delay period of working memory tasks, after the offset of stimuli that subjects are required to remember, has traditionally been…
Wenguan Wang, Yi Yang, Yunhe Pan
Visual knowledge is a new form of knowledge representation that can encapsulate visual concepts and their relations in a succinct, comprehensive, and interpretable manner, with a deep root in cognitive psychology. As the knowledge about the visual world has been identified as an indispensable component of human…
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Working memory is a central component of intelligent behavior, providing a dynamic workspace for maintaining and updating task-relevant information. Recent work has used n-back tasks to probe working-memory-like behavior in large language models, but it is unclear whether the same probe elicits comparable computations…
Madison Elliott, Christine Nothelfer, Cindy Xiong, Danielle Albers Szafir
'Danielle Albers Szafir'] | Paradigms | Adjustment Types | Response Types | Dependent Measures | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | What task does the | How is the stimulus level | How does the viewer | How do we measure | | viewer complete? | adjusted? | respond to that task? | performance? |
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…
Weihao Bo, Shan Zhang, Yanpeng Sun, Jingjing Wu + 8 more
MLLMs exhibit strong reasoning on isolated queries, yet they operate de novo—solving each problem independently and often repeating the same mistakes. Existing memory-augmented agents mainly store past trajectories for reuse. However, trajectory-based memory suffers from brevity bias, gradually losing essential domain…