Evaluating and excluding swap errors in analogue tests of working memory.

ABSTRACT: When observers retrieve simple visual features from working memory, two kinds of error are typically confounded in their recall. First, responses reflect noise or variability within the feature dimension they were asked to report. Second, responses are corrupted by "swap errors", in which a different item from the memory set is reported in place of the one that was probed. Independent evaluation of these error sources is vital for understanding the structure of internal representations and their binding. However, previous methods for disentangling these errors have been critically dependent on assumptions about the noise distribution, which is a priori unknown. Here I address this question with novel non-parametric (NP) methods, which estimate swap frequency and feature variability with fe

SUBMITTER: Bays PM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4725843 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature