Learning-Induced Plasticity Enhances the Capacity of Visual Working Memory

Conci, Markus; Busch, Nuno; Rozek, Robert P.; Müller, Hermann J.

doi:10.1177/09567976231192241

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“…Top-down knowledge influences our perception and cognition throughout the nervous system, from color perception 42,43 and visual working memory 44,45 to speech intelligibility 46 and musical syntax. 47,48 Rhythm processing appears to be no exception here.…”

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4/4 and More: Groove in Uncommon Meters

Spiech,

Câmara,

Fuhrer

et al. 2023

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The pleasurable urge to move to music (termed ‘groove’ by music psychologists) is said to arise from the tension between exogenous rhythms’ complexity and endogenous temporal expectations (meter). However, no study thus far has manipulated these two factors independently to directly assess their impact on groove. Thus, we compared ratings of musical clips of varying pulse entropy in either the most common Western meter (4/4) or uncommon meters that Western listeners would be less familiar with. In three online behavioral studies (N=383), we show that 1) perceived rhythmic complexity can be manipulated orthogonally to meter, 2) moderate rhythmic complexity only evokes the greatest groove in common meters whereas more rhythmically simple music elicits the greatest groove ratings in uncommon meters, and 3) these results are unaffected by presentation context. This demonstrates that groove is directly shaped by metric expectations that are used to guide synchronization to music.

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confidence: 99%

4/4 and More: Groove in Uncommon Meters

Spiech,

Câmara,

Fuhrer

et al. 2023

Preprint

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Semantic meaning enhances feature-binding but not quantity or precision of locations in visual working memory

Sahar,

Gronau,

Makovski

2024

Mem Cogn

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Recent studies showed that real-world items are better remembered in visual working memory (VWM) than visually similar stimuli that are stripped of their semantic meaning. However, the exact nature of this advantage remains unclear. We used meaningful and meaningless stimuli in a location-reproduction VWM task. Employing a mixture-modeling analysis, we examined whether semantic meaning enables more item locations to be remembered, whether it improves the precision of the locations stored in memory, or whether it improves binding between the specific items and their locations. Participants were presented with streams of four (Experiments 1 & 2) or six (Experiment 3) real-world items, or their scrambled, meaningless counterparts. Each item was presented at a unique location, and the task was to reproduce one item’s location. Overall, location memory was consistently better for real-world items compared with their scrambled counterparts. Furthermore, the results revealed that participants were less likely to make swap errors for the meaningful items, but there was no effect of conceptual meaning on the guess rate or the precision of the report. In line with previous findings, these results indicate that conceptual meaning enhances VWM for arbitrary stimulus properties such as item location, and this improvement is primarily due to a more efficient identity-location binding rather than an increase in the quantity or quality (precision) of the locations held in memory.

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Learning-Induced Plasticity Enhances the Capacity of Visual Working Memory

Cited by 2 publications

References 42 publications

4/4 and More: Groove in Uncommon Meters

4/4 and More: Groove in Uncommon Meters

Semantic meaning enhances feature-binding but not quantity or precision of locations in visual working memory

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