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| Title |
Iconic memory requires attention
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, January 2012
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| DOI | 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00126 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Marjan Persuh, Boris Genzer, Robert D. Melara |
| Abstract |
Two experiments investigated whether attention plays a role in iconic memory, employing either a change detection paradigm (Experiment 1) or a partial-report paradigm (Experiment 2). In each experiment, attention was taxed during initial display presentation, focusing the manipulation on consolidation of information into iconic memory, prior to transfer into working memory. Observers were able to maintain high levels of performance (accuracy of change detection or categorization) even when concurrently performing an easy visual search task (low load). However, when the concurrent search was made difficult (high load), observers' performance dropped to almost chance levels, while search accuracy held at single-task levels. The effects of attentional load remained the same across paradigms. The results suggest that, without attention, participants consolidate in iconic memory only gross representations of the visual scene, information too impoverished for successful detection of perceptual change or categorization of features. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Italy | 1 | 50% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 50% |
| Members of the public | 1 | 50% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 140 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 3 | 2% |
| France | 2 | 1% |
| Turkey | 1 | <1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 131 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 40 | 29% |
| Researcher | 21 | 15% |
| Student > Master | 20 | 14% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 17 | 12% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 5 | 4% |
| Other | 16 | 11% |
| Unknown | 21 | 15% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 58 | 41% |
| Neuroscience | 37 | 26% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 6 | 4% |
| Philosophy | 5 | 4% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 3 | 2% |
| Other | 10 | 7% |
| Unknown | 21 | 15% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 March 2022.
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#6,233,968
of 23,408,972 outputs
Outputs from Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
#2,488
of 7,285 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#55,406
of 247,073 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
#120
of 294 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,408,972 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 73rd percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 7,285 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.6. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 65% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 294 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 58% of its contemporaries.