Atkinson, Amy, Baddeley, Alan David orcid.org/0000-0002-9163-0643 and Allen, Richard J. (2017) Remember some or remember all? Ageing and strategy effects in visual working memory. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. ISSN 1747-0226
Abstract
Recent research (Bengson & Luck, 2015) has indicated that visual working memory capacity for unidimensional items might be boosted by focusing on all presented items, as opposed to a subset of them. However, it is not clear whether the same outcomes would be observed if more complex items were used which require feature binding, a potentially more demanding task. The current experiments therefore examined the effects of encoding strategy using multidimensional items in tasks that required feature binding. Effects were explored across a range of different age groups (Experiment 1) and task conditions (Experiment 2). In both experiments, participants performed significantly better when focusing on a subset of items, regardless of age or methodological variations, suggesting this is the optimal strategy to employ when several multidimensional items are presented and binding is required. Implications for task interpretation and visual working memory function are discussed.
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Keywords: | visual working memory,strategy/strategies,encoding,binding,ageing/aging |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Psychology (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 30 Aug 2017 10:45 |
Last Modified: | 03 Mar 2025 00:05 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2017.1341537 |
Status: | Published online |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/17470218.2017.1341537 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:120674 |