Editorial: Understanding the Operation of Visual Working Memory in Rich Complex Visual Context

Frontiers in Psychology

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Hagit Magen¹  Marius V. Peelen²  Tatiana Aloi Emmanouil³  Zaifeng Gao⁴ 

[1] School of Occupational Therapy, The Hebrew University;Donders Institute for Brain, Radboud University;Baruch College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, United States;Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University

关键词: visual working memory;    gestalt;    configuration;    regularities;    emotion;    development;    biological motion;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01996

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

As we move around in the world, we process a vast amount of visual information while weinteract with objects or events, navigate our way in the environment, and process emotional andsocial information. Due to changes and interruptions in the visual input, for example during eyemovements, task performance often relies on short-lived internal visual representations of theexternal world. Visual working memory (VWM) is the mechanism in charge of the formation andtemporary maintenance of such representations (see Luck and Vogel, 2013; Ma et al., 2014, forreviews). Much work in the field of VWM has focused on identifying the basic units of VWM andthe number of units that can be stored simultaneously, given its limited capacity (Cowan, 2001).Therefore, the majority of studies and theories in the field of VWM focus on the maintenanceof basic, isolated, and often arbitrary visual stimuli, overlooking the involvement of VWM in theprocessing of highly rich and complex information, such as those frequently encountered in reallife. The goal of the Research Topic was to broaden our knowledge regarding the maintenance ofcomplex information in VWM. In the following sections, we provide a brief overview of the articlesthat appear in the collection. Among the issues addressed are: configural organization of VWMrepresentations; metacognition for VWM performance; the role of emotions and of long-termmemory (LTM) in VWM; and VWM for biological movements and real world objects.

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