The Power Law of Visual Working Memory Characterizes Attention Engagement

The quality or precision of stimulus representations in visual working memory can be characterized by a power law, which states that precision decreases as a power of the number of items in memory, with an exponent whose magnitude typically varies in the range 0.5 to 0.75. The authors show that the...

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Published in:	Psychological review Vol. 125; no. 3; pp. 435 - 451
Main Authors:	Smith, Philip L, Corbett, Elaine A, Lilburn, Simon D, Kyllingsbæk, Søren
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States American Psychological Association 01-04-2018
Subjects:	Adult Attention Attention - physiology Attentional processes Cognition & reasoning Human Humans Magnitude Memory Memory, Short-Term - physiology Mental Recall - physiology Perceptual Masking - physiology Power Psychological Engagement Resource allocation Short Term Memory Signal Detection (Perception) Signal Detection, Psychological - physiology Stimulus Visual Memory Visual perception Visual Perception - physiology visual short-term memory (STM) signal detection working memory precision capacity limitations
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