What Individuals Experience During Visuo-Spatial Working Memory Task Performance: An Exploratory Phenomenological Study.

ABSTRACT: In experimental cognitive psychology, objects of inquiry are typically operationalized with psychological tasks. When interpreting results from such tasks, we focus primarily on behavioral measures such as reaction times and accuracy rather than experiences - i.e., phenomenology - associated with the task, and posit that the tasks elicit the desired cognitive phenomenon. Evaluating whether the tasks indeed elicit the desired phenomenon can be facilitated by understanding the experience during task performance. In this paper we explore the breadth of experiences that are elicited by and accompany task performance using in-depth phenomenological and qualitative methodology to gather subjective reports during the performance of a visuo-spatial change detection task. Thirty-one participants (1

SUBMITTER: Oblak A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9159378 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature