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dc.contributor.authorSuchow, Jordan
dc.contributor.authorFougnie, Daryl
dc.contributor.authorAlvarez, George
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-13T17:13:18Z
dc.date.issued2017-04
dc.identifier.citationSuchow, Jordan W., Daryl Fougnie, and George A. Alvarez. "Looking Inward and Back: Real-Time Monitoring of Visual Working Memories." Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 43, no. 4 (2017): 660-68.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1939-1285en_US
dc.identifier.issn0278-7393en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:41364830*
dc.description.abstractConfidence in our memories is influenced by many factors, including beliefs about the perceptibility or memorability of certain kinds of objects and events, as well as knowledge about our skill sets, habits, and experiences. Notoriously, our knowledge and beliefs about memory can lead us astray, causing us to be overly confident in eyewitness testimony or to overestimate the frequency of recent experiences. Here, using visual working memory as a case study, we stripped away all these potentially misleading cues, requiring observers to make confidence judgments by directly assessing the quality of their memory representations. We show that individuals can monitor the status of information in working memory as it degrades over time. Our findings suggest that people have access to information reflecting the existence and quality of their working memories, and furthermore, that they can use this information to guide their behavior.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipPsychologyen_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherAmerican Psychological Association (APA)en_US
dash.licenseOAP
dc.titleLooking Inward and Back: Real-Time Monitoring of Visual Working Memories.en_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
dc.description.versionAccepted Manuscripten_US
dc.relation.journalJournal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognitionen_US
dash.depositing.authorAlvarez, George
dc.date.available2019-09-13T17:13:18Z
dash.affiliation.otherFaculty of Arts & Sciencesen_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1037/xlm0000320
dc.source.journalJournal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
dash.source.volume43;4
dash.source.page660-668
dash.contributor.affiliatedAlvarez, George
dash.contributor.affiliatedSuchow, Jordan


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