Noisy and hierarchical visual memory across timescales

TF Brady, MM Robinson, JR Williams - Nature Reviews Psychology, 2024‏ - nature.com
Both in everyday life and in memory research, people tend to think that items are 'held'in
mind, in the same way that a real-world object can be held in one's hand. Inspired by this …

The role of meaning in visual working memory: Real-world objects, but not simple features, benefit from deeper processing.

TF Brady, VS Störmer - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 2022‏ - psycnet.apa.org
Visual working memory is a capacity-limited cognitive system used to actively store and
manipulate visual information. Visual working memory capacity is not fixed, but varies by …

Greater visual working memory capacity for visually matched stimuli when they are perceived as meaningful

IE Asp, VS Störmer, TF Brady - Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 2021‏ - direct.mit.edu
Almost all models of visual working memory—the cognitive system that holds visual
information in an active state—assume it has a fixed capacity: Some models propose a limit …

No fixed limit for storing simple visual features: Realistic objects provide an efficient scaffold for holding features in mind

YH Chung, TF Brady, VS Störmer - Psychological Science, 2023‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Prominent theories of visual working memory postulate that the capacity to maintain a
particular visual feature is fixed. In contrast to these theories, recent studies have …

Meaningfulness and familiarity expand visual working memory capacity

YH Chung, TF Brady… - Current Directions in …, 2024‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Visual working memory is traditionally studied using abstract, meaningless stimuli. Although
studies using such simplified stimuli have been insightful in understanding the mechanisms …

Sequential encoding aids working memory for meaningful objects' identities but not for their colors

YH Chung, TF Brady, VS Störmer - Memory & Cognition, 2024‏ - Springer
Previous studies have found that real-world objects' identities are better remembered than
simple features like colored circles, and this effect is particularly pronounced when these …

The role of working memory in long-term learning: Implications for childhood development

A Forsberg, EJ Adams, N Cowan - Psychology of learning and motivation, 2021‏ - Elsevier
In this chapter, we discuss the crucial role of working memory limitations in long-term
learning. Convincing correlational evidence suggests that working memory ability is related …

Semantic meaning enhances feature-binding but not quantity or precision of locations in visual working memory

T Sahar, N Gronau, T Makovski - Memory & Cognition, 2024‏ - Springer
Recent studies showed that real-world items are better remembered in visual working
memory (VWM) than visually similar stimuli that are stripped of their semantic meaning …

Scaling up visual attention and visual working memory to the real world

TF Brady, VS Störmer, A Shafer-Skelton… - Psychology of learning …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Both visual attention and visual working memory tend to be studied either with very simple
stimuli and low-level paradigms, which are designed to allow us to understand the …

Working memory capacity for biological motion: A virtual reality examination

L Hu, Q Gao, L Zhang, Y Wen, Z Gao, R Wang - Current Psychology, 2024‏ - Springer
Biological motion (BM), the movements of animate entities, contains rich social information
and has been extensively explored in visual science. Consistent with a fixed-capacity view …