[visionlist] ANNOUNCING A SPECIAL ISSUE OF ATTENTION, PERCEPTION, AND PSYCHOPHYSICS on The structure of visual working memory

[Jeremy Wolfe]

ANNOUNCING

A SPECIAL ISSUE OF ATTENTION, PERCEPTION, AND PSYCHOPHYSICS

 

TOPIC: The structure of visual working memory

 

Submissions: Due by July 1, 2013

Publication: Winter, 2013

 

We will consider regular Research Articles, Short Reports, and a limited number of

Opinion/Review pieces. For Opinion / Review submissions, please send a

presubmission inquiry to Jeremy Wolfe (wolfe at search.bwh.harvard.edu), Editor.

 

This special issue is coordinated with a Symposium on the same topic to be held at

the Vision Sciences Society meeting, Naples, Florida, May 10, 2013

 

Working memory is an essential component of perception, cognition, and action.

The past eight years have seen a surge of activity aimed at understanding the

structure of visual working memory. The symposium will consider two central

theoretical issues: slots versus resources, and the role of context. SLOTS VERSUS

RESOURCES: Working memory is widely believed to be subject to an item limit: no

more than a fixed number of items can be stored and any additional items are

forgotten. In 2004, Wilken and Ma challenged this notion and advocated for an

alternative framework in which a continuous memory resource is divided over all

items and errors are explained in terms of the quality of encoding rather than the

quantity of remembered items. Since then, arguments have been made on both

sides. New concepts that have been introduced in this debate include variable

precision, non-target reports, Bayesian inference, and the neural substrate of

memory resource. THE ROLE OF CONTEXT In the slots-versus-resources debate,

items are routinely assumed to be encoded independently in working memory. This

assumption is likely to be wrong, but how wrong? Recent work has pointed out the

large effects of the context in which an item is presented. Items seem to be

remembered in groups or ensembles organized by space or feature, and this

introduces predictable biases. (Prose modified from the symposium description).

 

For the Special Issue, we welcome papers on these topics or other topics in the

study of visual working memory. Submission is via the standard journal website:

http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/pandp

 

Questions and comments can be directed to Jeremy Wolfe

(wolfe at search.bwh.harvard.edu), Editor.

 

 

 


Jeremy M Wolfe, PhD					
Professor of Ophthalmology & Radiology, 
Harvard Medical School

Director - Visual Attention Lab
Center for Advanced Medical Imaging (Radiology)				

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