Citation

Kikuchi T. J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. Percept. Perform. 1987; 13(3): 464-477.

Affiliation

University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki-Ken, Japan.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1987, American Psychological Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2958594

Abstract

In order to infer the temporal relations among iconic, short-term, and long-term components of visual memory, random dot patterns were used as memory stimuli in six recognition memory experiments. Experiment 1 demonstrated that recognition was still above chance for intervals up to 12 s. In Experiments 2 and 3, an intervening masking stimulus was found to be effective only if presented within the first 500 ms of the interval. The remaining three experiments employed a two-target task, with the second target replacing the masking stimulus. Recognition performance with the second target was the same as that in a single-target task, whereas performance with the first target was almost at chance level. Increasing the interval between the targets resulted in a gradual improvement in the recognition of the first target.

Language: en