Persistent resampling of external information despite 25 repetitions of the same visual search templates.

ABSTRACT: We commonly load visual working memory minimally when to-be-remembered information remains available in the external world. In visual search, this is characterised by participants frequently resampling previously encoded templates, which helps minimize cognitive effort and improves task performance. If all search templates have been rehearsed many times, they should become strongly represented in memory, possibly eliminating the benefit of reinspections. To test whether repetition indeed leads to less resampling, participants searched for sets of 1, 2, and 4 continuously available search templates. Critically, each unique set of templates was repeated 25 trials consecutively. Although the number of inspections and inspection durations initially decreased strongly when a template set was re

SUBMITTER: Hoogerbrugge AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11480145 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature