A review of visual memory capacity: Beyond individual items and toward structured representations.
A review of visual memory capacity: Beyond individual items and toward structured representations.
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DOI：
10.1167/11.5.4
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发表时间：
2011-05-26
影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
Alvarez GA
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作者：
Brady TF;Konkle T;Alvarez GA
传统的记忆研究侧重于识别独立的记忆系统并探索记忆处理的不同阶段。这种方法对于建立记忆系统的分类和表征它们的功能是有价值的，但是对于存储的记忆表征的性质信息较少。近年来，视觉记忆的研究重点转向表征，主要关注记忆的内容，并试图确定记忆信息的格式和结构。这篇评论的主要论点是，如果不确定记忆表征的性质，就不能完全理解记忆系统或记忆过程。这种联系在试图测量视觉记忆能力的研究中最为明显。我们将回顾有关视觉工作记忆和视觉长期记忆容量的研究，重点介绍最近强调记忆内容的工作。这种关注不仅影响我们如何估计系统的容量-超越量化可以记住多少项目，并走向结构化表示-而且我们如何建模记忆系统和记忆过程。
Traditional memory research has focused on identifying separate memory systems and exploring different stages of memory processing. This approach has been valuable for establishing a taxonomy of memory systems and characterizing their function, but has been less informative about the nature of stored memory representations. Recent research on visual memory has shifted towards a representation-based emphasis, focusing on the contents of memory, and attempting to determine the format and structure of remembered information. The main thesis of this review will be that one cannot fully understand memory systems or memory processes without also determining the nature of memory representations. Nowhere is this connection more obvious than in research that attempts to measure the capacity of visual memory. We will review research on the capacity of visual working memory and visual long-term memory, highlighting recent work that emphasizes the contents of memory. This focus impacts not only how we estimate the capacity of the system - going beyond quantifying how many items can be remembered, and moving towards structured representations - but how we model memory systems and memory processes.