Encoding color and shape from different parts of an object in visual short-term memory

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 64, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1260-1280

  Xu, Yaoda ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COLOR PERCEPTION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0036878550     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03194770     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. AARONSON, D., & WATTS, B. (1987). Extensions of Grier's computational formulas for A′ and B″ to below-chance performance. Psychological Bulletin, 102, 439-442.
2. ALLPORT, D. A. (1971). Parallel encoding within and between elementary stimulus dimensions. Perception & Psychophysics, 10, 104-108.
3. ASCH, S. E. (1969). A reformulation of the problem of associations. American Psychologist, 24, 94-102.
4. BAYLIS, G. C., & DRIVER, J. (1994). Parallel computation of symmetry but not repetition in single visual objects. Visual Cognition, 1, 377-400.
5. BAYLIS, G. C., & DRIVER, J. (1995). Obligatory edge assignment in vision: The role of figure and part segmentation in symmetry detection. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 21, 1321-1342.
6. CERASO, J. (1985). Unit formation in perception and memory. In G. H. Bower (Ed.). The psychology of learning and motivation: Advances in research and theory (Vol. 19, pp. 179-210). New York: Academic Press.
7. DONALDSON, W. (1993). Accuracy of d′ and A′ as estimates of sensitivity. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 31, 271-274.
8. DUNCAN, J. (1980). The demonstration of capacity limitation. Cognitive Psychology, 12, 75-96.
9. DUNCAN, J. (1984). Selective attention and the organization of visual information. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 113, 501-517.
10. GOLDSMITH, M. (1998). What's in a location? Comparing object-based and space-based models of feature integration in visual search. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 127, 189-219.
11. GRIER, J. B. (1971). Nonparametric indexes for sensitivity and bias: Computing formulas. Psychological Bulletin, 75, 424-429.
12. HOFFMAN, D. D., & RICHARDS, W. A. (1984). Parts of recognition. Cognition, 18, 65-96.
13. HOFFMAN, D. D., & SINGH, M. (1997). Salience of visual parts. Cognition, 63, 29-78.
14. HULLEMAN, J., TE WINKEL, W., & BOSELIE, F. (2000). Concavities as basic features in visual search: Evidence from search asymmetries. Perception & Psychophysics, 62, 162-174.
15. IRWIN, D. E. (1992). Memory for position and identity across eye movements. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 18, 307-317.
16. IRWIN, D. E., & ANDREWS, R. V. (1996). Integration and accumulation of information across saccadic eye movements. In T. Inui & J. L. McClelland (Eds.), Attention and performance XVI: Information integration in perception and communication (pp. 125-155). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, Bradford Books.
17. LEE, D., & CHUN, M. M. (2001). What are the units of visual short-term memory, objects or spatial locations? Perception & Psychophysics, 63, 253-257.
18. LUCK, S. J., & VOGEL, E. K. (1997). The capacity of visual working memory for features and conjunctions. Nature, 390, 279-281.
19. MACMILLAN, N. A., & CREELMAN, C. D. (1991). Detection theory: A user's guide. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
20. MARR, D. (1982). Vision. San Francisco: Freeman.
21. NAKAYAMA, K., & SHIMOJO, S. (1992). Experiencing and perceiving visual surfaces. Science, 257, 1357-1363.
22. PASHLER, H. (1988). Familiarity and visual change detection. Perception & Psychophysics, 44, 369-378.
23. PHILLIPS, W. A. (1974). On the distinction between sensory storage and short-term visual memory. Perception & Psychophysics, 16, 283-290.
24. PHILLIPS, W. A., & CHRISTIE, D. F. M. (1977). Components of visual memory. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 29, 117-133.
25. POLLACK, I., & NORMAN, D. A. (1964). A non-parametric analysis of recognition experiments. Psychonomic Science, 1, 125-126
26. ROCK, I. (1983). The logic of perception. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
27. SINGH, M., SEYRANINAN, G. D., & HOFFMAN, D. D. (1999). Parsing silhouettes: The short-cut rule. Perception & Psychophysics, 61, 636-660.
28. SNODGRASS, J. G., & CORWIN, J. (1988). Pragmatics of measuring recognition memory: Applications to dementia and amnesia. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 117, 34-50.
29. TREISMAN, A. (1988). Features and objects: The Fourteenth Barlett Memorial Lecture. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 40A, 201-237.
30. TREISMAN, A., & GELADE, G. (1980). A feature integration theory of attention. Cognitive Psychology, 12, 97-136.
31. VECERA, S. P., BEHRMANN, M., & FILAPEK, J. C. (2001). Attending to the parts of a single object: Part-based selection limitations. Perception & Psychophysics, 63, 308-321.
32. VECERA, S. P., BEHRMANN, M., & MCGOLDRICK, J. (2000). Selective attention to the parts of an object. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 7, 301-308.
33. VOGEL, E. K., WOODMAN, G. F., EADS, A. C., & LUCK, S. J. (1998, April). Masking in visual working memory: Evidence for a limited-capacity encoding mechanism. Poster presented at the 1998 Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco.
34. VOGEL, E. K., WOODMAN, G. F., & LUCK, S. J. (2001). Storage of features, conjunctions, and objects in visual working memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 27, 92-114.
35. WALKER, P., & CUTHBERT, L. (1998). Remembering visual feature conjunctions: Visual memory for shape-color associations is object-based. Visual Cognition, 5, 409-455.
36. WILTON, R. N. (1989). The structure of memory: Evidence concerning the recall of surface and background color of shapes. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 41A, 579-598.
37. WING, A., & ALLPORT, D. A. (1972). Multidimensional encoding of visual form. Perception & Psychophysics, 12, 474-476.
38. WOLFE, J. M., & BENNETT, S. C. (1997). Preattentive object files: Shapeless bundles of basic features. Vision Research, 37, 25-43.
39. XU, Y. (2000). Object parts in visual short-term memory and visual search. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
40. XU, Y. (2002). Limitations in object-based feature encoding in visual short-term memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 28, 458-468.
41. XU, Y. (in press). Object-based feature integration in visual search. Perception.
42. XU, Y., & POTTER, M. C. (2000). Capacity and form of representation in visual short-term memory. Manuscript submitted for publication.
43. XU, Y., & SINGH, M. (2002). Early computation of part structure: Evidence from visual search. Perception & Psychophysics, 67, 1039-1054.