Iconic memory for the gist of natural scenes

•Does iconic memory contain the gist or the meaning of multiple natural scenes?•Does iconic memory contain the gist of natural scenes presented in the visual periphery?•We found that iconic memory contains the gist of scenes from different basic-level categories.•We found that iconic memory does not...

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Published in:Consciousness and cognition Vol. 30; pp. 256 - 265
Main Authors: Clarke, Jason, Mack, Arien
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam Elsevier Inc 01.11.2014
Elsevier
Elsevier BV
Subjects:
Adult
Biological and medical sciences
Cognition & reasoning
Concept Formation - physiology
Cues
Experimental psychology
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Gist perception
Human
Humans
Iconic memory
Learning. Memory
Memory
Memory - physiology
Natural scene perception
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Random Allocation
Visual Perception - physiology
Natural scene perception
Iconic memory
Gist perception
Human
Natural scene
Vision
Perception
Cognition
Experimental study
ISSN:1053-8100, 1090-2376, 1090-2376
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Summary:•Does iconic memory contain the gist or the meaning of multiple natural scenes?•Does iconic memory contain the gist of natural scenes presented in the visual periphery?•We found that iconic memory contains the gist of scenes from different basic-level categories.•We found that iconic memory does not contain the gist of scenes from the same basic-level category.•We found that iconic memory contains the gist of peripherally-presented scenes. Does iconic memory contain the gist of multiple scenes? Three experiments were conducted. In the first, four scenes from different basic-level categories were briefly presented in one of two conditions: a cue or a no-cue condition. The cue condition was designed to provide an index of the contents of iconic memory of the display. Subjects were more sensitive to scene gist in the cue condition than in the no-cue condition. In the second, the scenes came from the same basic-level category. We found no difference in sensitivity between the two conditions. In the third, six scenes from different basic level categories were presented in the visual periphery. Subjects were more sensitive to scene gist in the cue condition. These results suggest that scene gist is contained in iconic memory even in the visual periphery; however, iconic representations are not sufficiently detailed to distinguish between scenes coming from the same category.
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ISSN:1053-8100
1090-2376
1090-2376
DOI:10.1016/j.concog.2014.09.015