Dissecting the components of error in analogue report tasks.

ABSTRACT: Over the last two decades, the analogue report task has become a standard method for measuring the fidelity of visual representations across research domains including perception, attention, and memory. Despite its widespread use, there has been no methodical investigation of the different task parameters that might contribute to response variability. To address this gap, we conducted two experiments manipulating components of a typical analogue report test of memory for colour hue. We found that human response errors were independently affected by changes in storage and maintenance requirements of the task, demonstrated by a strong effect of set size even in the absence of a memory delay. In contrast, response variability remained unaffected by physical size of the colour wheel, implying

SUBMITTER: Tomic I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11525414 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature