Title |
Hand proximity differentially affects visual working memory for color and orientation in a binding task
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Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, April 2014
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DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00318 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Shane P. Kelly, James R. Brockmole |
Abstract |
Observers determined whether two sequentially presented arrays of six lines were the same or different. Differences, when present, involved either a swap in the color of two lines or a swap in the orientation of two lines. Thus, accurate change detection required the binding of color and orientation information for each line within visual working memory. Holding viewing distance constant, the proximity of the arrays to the hands was manipulated. Placing the hands near the to-be-remembered array decreased participants' ability to remember color information, but increased their ability to remember orientation information. This pair of results indicates that hand proximity differentially affects the processing of various types of visual information, a conclusion broadly consistent with functional and anatomical differences in the magnocellular and parvocellular pathways. It further indicates that hand proximity affects the likelihood that various object features will be encoded into integrated object files. |
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