Publications by authors named "Jessica L Holt"
A bilateral advantage for maintaining objects in visual short term memory.
Acta Psychol (Amst)
January 2015
Research has shown that attentional pre-cues can subsequently influence the transfer of information into visual short term memory (VSTM) (Schmidt, B., Vogel, E., Woodman, G.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRecent research on visual short-term memory (VSTM) has revealed the existence of a bilateral field advantage (BFA--i.e., better memory when the items are distributed in the two visual fields than if they are presented in the same hemifield) for spatial location and bar orientation, but not for color (Delvenne, 2005; Umemoto, Drew, Ester, & Awh, 2010).
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- Humans can select and remember important visual information through a process called visual short-term memory (VSTM).
- Research indicates that individuals can simultaneously focus on at least two items located in different visual hemifields (left and right sides).
- Two experiments demonstrated that attention could be split between items held in VSTM, enhancing memory for colors when they were from separate hemifields, while the arrangement of items in the visual field alone did not impact memory without specific cues.