Journal article
Attention restores discrete items to visual short-term memory.
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When a memory is forgotten, is it lost forever? Our study shows that selective attention can restore forgotten items to visual short-term memory (VSTM). In our two experiments, all stimuli presented in a memory array were designed to be equally task relevant during encoding. During the retention interval, however, participants were sometimes given a cue predicting which of the memory items would be probed at the end of the delay. This shift in task relevance improved recall for that item. We ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
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- Journal:
- Psychological science
- Volume:
- 24
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 550-556
- Publication date:
- 2013-04-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1467-9280
- ISSN:
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0956-7976
- Source identifiers:
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376744
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- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:376744
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- pubs:376744
- Deposit date:
- 2013-11-16
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- 2013
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