Project

Beyond vision: the influence of auditory and contextual representations on visual working memory

Code
01J07113
Duration
01 March 2013 → 31 December 2017
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
  • Social sciences
    • Animal experimental and comparative psychology
    • Applied psychology
    • Biological and physiological psychology
    • Cognitive science and intelligent systems
    • Developmental psychology and ageing
    • Human experimental psychology
  • Medical and health sciences
    • Neurosciences
    • Neurosciences
    • Neurosciences
Keywords
context visual working memory attention multisensory categories
 
Project description

Until recently, it was assumed that information that is temporarily stored in working memory is represented in a visual or auditory format. Recent research has given rise to doubt such an interpretation, because abstract categorical, as well as other non-relevant objectproperties are stored as well. The current project will study how non-visual information plays a role in visual working memory.