Strategies in visuospatial working memory for learning virtual shapes
✍ Scribed by Glenn Gordon Smith; Albert Dieter Ritzhaupt; Edwin Tjoe
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 176 KB
- Volume
- 24
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0888-4080
- DOI
- 10.1002/acp.1620
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
This study investigated visuospatial working memory (WM) strategies people use to remember unfamiliar randomly generated shapes in the context of an interactive computer‐based visuospatial WM task. In a three‐phase experiment with random shapes, participants (n = 94) first interactively determined if two equivalent shapes were rotated or reflected; second, memorized the shape; and third, determined if an imprint in a profile view of the ground was a rotated, reflected imprint of the shape, or an imprint not matching the original shape. Participants self‐reported these strategies: Key feature, shape interaction, association/elaboration, holistic/perspective, divide and conquer, mental rotation/reflection and others. Participants reporting key features strategy were significantly more accurate on the computer‐based visuospatial WM task. These results highlight the importance of strategy in visuospatial WM. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.