Large capacity temporary visual memory.

Large capacity temporary visual memory.

Visual working memory (WM) capacity is thought to be limited to 3 or 4 items. However, many cognitive activities seem to require larger temporary memory stores. Here, we provide evidence for a temporary memory store with much larger capacity than past WM capacity estimates. Further, based on previous WM research, we show that a single factor--proactive interference--is sufficient to bring capac...

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General Large Capacity Temporary Visual Memory

Visual and auditory working memory capacity.

activated portion of the information in permanent memory, which extends beyond the focus of attention to include some automatically activated information (see Fig. 1). When researchers use the term 'working memory', some of them seem to be referring only to the focus of attention, whereas others seem to be referring to all of the temporarily activated information. It is also likely that certain...

Discrete capacity limits in visual working memory.

The amount of information we can actively maintain 'in mind' is very limited. This capacity limitation, known as working memory (WM) capacity, has been of great interest because of its wide scope influence on the variety of intellectual abilities. Recently, there has been an ongoing debate about how this capacity should be best characterized. One viewpoint argues that WM capacity is allocated i...

Visual Working Memory Capacity and Proactive Interference

BACKGROUND Visual working memory capacity is extremely limited and appears to be relatively immune to practice effects or the use of explicit strategies. The recent discovery that visual working memory tasks, like verbal working memory tasks, are subject to proactive interference, coupled with the fact that typical visual working memory tasks are particularly conducive to proactive interference...