SENSORY REGISTRATION AND INFORMATIONAL PERSISTENCE
SENSORY REGISTRATION AND INFORMATIONAL PERSISTENCE
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DOI:
10.1037/0096-1523.12.3.343
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发表时间:
1986-08-01
影响因子:
2.1
通讯作者:
YEOMANS, JM
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作者:
IRWIN, DE;YEOMANS, JM
The view of iconic memory as a precategorical, high-capacity, quickly decaying visible memory has recently come under attack (eg, M. Coltheart, 1980). Distinctions have been drawn between visible persistence, or the phenomenal trace of an extinguished stimulus, and informational persistence, knowledge about the visual properties of the stimulus. Two alternative conceptions of informational persistence were tested in 3 experiments with 13 university students and the present authors. One conception is that visual information persists in a visual memory that begins at stimulus offset and lasts for 150–300 msec, independently of exposure duration. The 2nd conception is that informational persistence arises from a nonvisual memory that contains spatial coordinates for displayed items along with identity codes for those items. In the experiments, 3× 3 letter arrays were presented for durations ranging from 50 to 500 msec. A single character mask presented at varying intervals after array offset cued report of an entire row of the array. Comparison of the cued row's masked and unmasked letters revealed that spatially specific visual (ie, maskable) information persisted after stimulus offset, regardless of exposure duration. This result favors the visual conception of informational persistence. There was also support, however, for the nonvisual conception: Accuracy increased and item intrusion errors decreased as stimulus duration increased. Implications for models of informational persistence and for transsaccadic integration during reading are discussed.(47 ref)(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)