Mental imagery and visual working memory

心理意象和视觉工作记忆

• 批准号: DP140101560
• 负责人: Prof Joel Pearson
• 金额: $ 23.13万
• 依托单位: The University of New South Wales
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2014-01-01 至 2017-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP140101560
• 关键词: Mental; imagery; visual; working; memory

Remembering information “in mind” is severely limited by restrictions in capacity, duration and precision. The limits on capacity and precision in visual working memory remain unclear. Likewise, the search for the neural correlates of visual working memory has produced conflicting results. This proposal will show that the limits in precision, capacity and the neural correlates of visual working memory are driven by visual mental imagery. By showing that mental imagery is the missing link to a comprehensive understanding of working memory, This project will show that mental imagery strength limits how much visual information can be held "in mind”. This work will unify two heated scientific debates and produce a complete map of working memory.

记忆信息的能力、持续时间和准确性受到严重限制。视觉工作记忆的容量和精确度的限制仍然不清楚。同样，对视觉工作记忆的神经相关性的研究也产生了相互矛盾的结果。这一建议将表明，视觉工作记忆的精度，容量和神经相关的限制是由视觉心理意象驱动的。通过展示心理意象是全面理解工作记忆的缺失环节，本项目将展示心理意象的强度限制了多少视觉信息可以“记住”。这项工作将统一两个激烈的科学辩论，并产生一个完整的工作记忆地图。