Timing Is (almost) Everything When It Comes To Scene Memory

Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - 16:14 in Psychology & Sociology

The ability to remember a briefly presented scene depends on a number of factors, such as its saliency, novelty, degree of threat, or behavioral relevance to a task. Generally, attention is thought to be key, in that people can only remember part of a visual scene when paying attention to it at any given moment. University of Washington researchers, however, say that memory for visual scenes may not depend on attention level or what a scene contains, but when the scene is presented. Their study, they say, shows how visual scenes are encoded into memory at behaviorally relevant points in time. The results are published in PLoS Biology. read more

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