Publications by authors named "Shani Friedman"

To access its online representations, visual working memory (VWM) relies on a pointer-system that creates correspondence between objects in the environment with their memory representations. This pointer-system allows VWM to modify its representations using a process called updating. When the pointer is invalidated, however, VWM triggers a process called resetting in which the no longer relevant representation and pointer are replaced.

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Visual working memory (VWM) can hold a limited amount of visual information and manipulate it. It encodes this information and forms representations of each one of the relevant objects. When an object changes, VWM can either update or reset its representation to account for this change.

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Article Synopsis
  • The object-file framework explains how we keep track of objects as they move by retrieving their recent history when we focus on them.
  • Evidence for this is shown in the object-specific preview benefit (OSPB), where people are quicker to recognize a letter if it appeared in the same object before.
  • A new go/no-go object-reviewing method was proposed to better study this automatic retrieval process, allowing researchers to replicate the OSPB in a way that shows how we perceive objects without requiring explicit recall of their history.
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