Spatial Organization in Self-Initiated Visual Working Memory.

ABSTRACT: Ample research in visual working memory (VWM) has demonstrated that the memorized items are maintained in integrated spatial configurations, even when the spatial context is task irrelevant. These insights were obtained in studies in which participants were provided with the information they memorized. However, the encoding of provided information is only one aspect of memory. In everyday life, individuals often construct their own memory representations, an aspect of memory we have previously termed self-initiated (SI) working memory. In this study, we employed a SI VWM task in which participants selected the visual targets they memorized. The spatial locations of the targets were task irrelevant. Nevertheless, we were interested to see whether participants would construct spatially struc

SUBMITTER: Magen H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6923243 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature