Ensemble clustering in visual working memory biases location memories and reduces the Weber noise of relative positions

• Published in: Journal of vision (Charlottesville, Va.) Vol. 15; no. 4; pp. 10 - 14
• Main Authors: Lew, Timothy F., Vul, Edward
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 2015
• Subjects: Adult; Cluster Analysis; Humans; Memory, Short-Term - physiology; Mental Recall - physiology; Visual Perception - physiology

People seem to compute the ensemble statistics of objects and use this information to support the recall of individual objects in visual working memory. However, there are many different ways that hierarchical structure might be encoded. We examined the format of structured memories by asking subjec...