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Andrew Hollingworth, Joo-Seok Hyun, and Weiwei Zhang (2005)
The role of visual short-term memory in empty cell localization.
Percept Psychophys 67(8):1332-43.
Three experiments examined the visual memory representation supporting performance at long interstimulus intervals (ISIs) in an empty cell localizationtask. Two arrays of dots within a 4 x 4 grid were displayed briefly in succession. One grid cell did not contain a dot in either array, and the task was to localize the empty cell. In Experiment 1, we replicated previous findings of recovery to high levels of performance at long ISIs. In Experiment 2, we tested whether figural grouping in visual short-term memory (VSTM) supports long-ISI performance by manipulating the complexity of the array pattern. Pattern complexity had no effect on empty cell localization at 0-msec ISI, suggesting dependence on high-capacity visible persistence, but there was a large simple pattern advantage at long ISIs, suggesting dependence on figural grouping in VSTM. Experiment 3 demonstrated that participants typically remember the empty cells of the first array, and not the dots, for comparison with Array 2.
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