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Direct linkForsberg, Alicia; Adams, Eryn J.; Cowan, Nelson – Developmental Science, 2023
We investigated how visual working memory (WM) develops with age across the early elementary school period (6-7 years), early adolescence (11-13 years), and early adulthood (18-25 years). The work focuses on changes in two parameters: the number of objects retained at least in part, and the amount of feature-detail remembered for such objects.…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Short Term Memory, Age Differences, Elementary School Students
Vergauwe, Evie; Cowan, Nelson – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2015
We compared two contrasting hypotheses of how multifeatured objects are stored in visual working memory (vWM); as integrated objects or as independent features. A new procedure was devised to examine vWM representations of several concurrently held objects and their features and our main measure was reaction time (RT), allowing an examination of…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Visual Perception, Reaction Time, Comparative Analysis
Ricker, Timothy J.; Spiegel, Lauren R.; Cowan, Nelson – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2014
There is no consensus as to why forgetting occurs in short-term memory tasks. In past work, we have shown that forgetting occurs with the passage of time, but there are 2 classes of theories that can explain this effect. In the present work, we investigate the reason for time-based forgetting by contrasting the predictions of temporal…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Visual Perception, Time, College Students
