The effect of spatial and nonspatial contextual information on visual object memory

Recent research has found visual object memory can be stored as part of a larger scene representation rather than independently of scene context. The present study examined how spatial and nonspatial contextual information modulate visual object memory. Two experiments tested participants' visu...

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Published inVisual cognition Vol. 17; no. 8; pp. 1259 - 1270
Main Authors Sun, Hsin-Mei, Gordon, Robert D.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Hove Taylor & Francis Group 01.11.2009
Psychology Press
Subjects
Biological and medical sciences
Change detection
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Human
Learning. Memory
Memory
Object representation
Perception
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Vision
Visual context
Visual memory
Context
Human
Visual memory
Vision
Stimulus change
Perception
Cognition
Object
Visual information
Experimental study
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Summary:Recent research has found visual object memory can be stored as part of a larger scene representation rather than independently of scene context. The present study examined how spatial and nonspatial contextual information modulate visual object memory. Two experiments tested participants' visual memory by using a change detection task in which a target object's orientation was either the same as it appeared during initial viewing or changed. In addition, we examined the effect of spatial and nonspatial contextual manipulations on change detection performance. The results revealed that visual object representations can be maintained reliably after viewing arrays of objects. Moreover, change detection performance was significantly higher when either spatial or nonspatial contextual information remained the same in the test image. We concluded that while processing complex visual stimuli such as object arrays, visual object memory can be stored as part of a comprehensive scene representation, and both spatial and nonspatial contextual changes modulate visual memory retrieval and comparison.
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ISSN:1350-6285
1464-0716
DOI:10.1080/13506280802469510