Visual short-term memory load does not enhance attentional selection

Moderate exercise does not immediately enhance short term memory retrieval

Exercise is viewed as an essential component to one’s lifestyle and an enhancement for bodily functions and longevity. We investigated the impact that exercise has on short-term memory recall ability. During exercise, heart rate and respiration increase allowing increased oxygen intake and flow, mainly directed towards the brain and muscles. We analyzed how exercise impacted short-term memory b...

The strength of attentional biases reduces as visual short-term memory load increases.

Despite our visual system receiving irrelevant input that competes with task-relevant signals, we are able to pursue our perceptual goals. Attention enhances our visual processing by biasing the processing of the input that is relevant to the task at hand. The top-down signals enabling these biases are therefore important for regulating lower level sensory mechanisms. In three experiments, we e...

Attentional Modulation Of Infant Visual Short Term Memory

Approved: ____________________________________ Thesis Supervisor ____________________________________ Title and Department ____________________________________ Date 1 ATTENTIONAL MODULATION OF INFANT VISUAL SHORT-TERM MEMORY by Shannon Ross-Sheehy A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Psychology in the Graduate College of The Univer...

Attentional Selection and Reduced Interference Improve Visual Short-Term Memory in Mild Cognitive Impairment

The Attentional Selection in Visual Search within Short-Term Memory Representations

During the perception of a visual scene, attention can be directed to parts of the space (Posner and Cohen, 1984), distinct features (Treisman and Gelade, 1980) and, as recently shown, also to entire objects (Desimone and Duncan, 1995; Valdes-Sosa et al., 1998; O’Craven et al., 1999; Schoenfeld et al., 2003). Depending on the goals of the observer, those types of selection are flexibly employed...