The Effect of Perceptual Expertise on Visual Short-Term Memory

Visual working memory (VWM) capacity is larger for faces than other complex objects. Inversion reduces capacity for faces more than nonfaces (Curby and Gauthier, 2007). These findings suggest that VWM is influenced by the encoding processes employed by face experts. Scolari, Vogel and Awh (2008) fou...

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Main Authors: Wei Zhang, William Hayward
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2011-05-01
Series:i-Perception
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1068/ic240