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dc.contributor.author	Hartshorne, Joshua
dc.date.accessioned	2009-03-02T00:41:37Z
dc.date.issued	2008
dc.identifier.citation	Hartshorne, Joshua K. 2008. Visual working memory capacity and proactive interference. PLoS ONE 3, no. 7: e2716.	en
dc.identifier.issn	1932-6203	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:2640580
dc.description.abstract	Background: Visual working memory capacity is extremely limited and appears to be relatively immune to practice effects or the use of explicit strategies. The recent discovery that visual working memory tasks, like verbal working memory tasks, are subject to proactive interference, coupled with the fact that typical visual working memory tasks are particularly conducive to proactive interference, suggests that visual working memory capacity may be systematically under-estimated. Methodology/Principal Findings: Working memory capacity was probed behaviorally in adult humans both in laboratory settings and via the Internet. Several experiments show that although the effect of proactive interference on visual working memory is significant and can last over several trials, it only changes the capacity estimate by about 15%. Conclusions/Significance: This study further confirms the sharp limitations on visual working memory capacity, both in absolute terms and relative to verbal working memory. It is suggested that future research take these limitations into account in understanding differences across a variety of tasks between human adults, prelinguistic infants and nonlinguistic animals.	en
dc.description.sponsorship	Psychology	en
dc.language.iso	en_US	en
dc.publisher	Public Library of Science	en
dc.relation.isversionof	http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0002716	en
dash.license	LAA
dc.subject	experimental psychology	en
dc.subject	psychology	en
dc.subject	cognitive neuroscience	en
dc.subject	neuroscience
dc.title	Visual Working Memory Capacity and Proactive Interference	en
dc.relation.journal	PLoS ONE	en
dash.depositing.author	Hartshorne, Joshua

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