Journal article
Lacking control over the trade-off between quality and quantity in visual short-term memory.
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Visual short-term memory (VSTM) is limited in the quantity and quality of items that can be retained over time. Importantly, these two mnemonic parameters interact: increasing the number of items in VSTM reduces the quality with which they are represented. Here, we ask whether this trade-off is under top-down control. Specifically, we test whether participants can strategically optimise the trade-off between quality and quantity for VSTM according to task demands. We manipulated strategic tra...
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- Publication status:
- Published
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- 10.1371/journal.pone.0041223
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Bibliographic Details
- Journal:
- PloS one
- Volume:
- 7
- Issue:
- 8
- Pages:
- e41223
- Publication date:
- 2012-01-01
- DOI:
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1932-6203
- ISSN:
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1932-6203
- Source identifiers:
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349787
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- Language:
- English
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uuid:459b42fe-591b-42eb-8f55-1dbfd00bed3c
- Local pid:
- pubs:349787
- Deposit date:
- 2012-12-19
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- 2012
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