Department Psychologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany.
Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany.
Br J Psychol. 2019 May;110(2):193-206. doi: 10.1111/bjop.12377. Epub 2019 Feb 8.
Visual working memory (VWM) is a core construct in the cognitive (neuro-)sciences, assumed to serve as a hub for information exchange and thus supporting a multitude of cognitive functions related to processing visual information. Here, we give an introduction into key terms and paradigms and an overview of ongoing debates in the field, to which the articles collected in this Special Issue on 'Current Directions in Visual Working Memory Research' contribute. Our aim is to extract, from this overview, some 'emerging' theoretical insights concerning questions such as the optimal way to examine VWM, which types of mental representations contribute to performance on VWM tasks, and how VWM keeps features from the same object together and apart from features of concurrently maintained objects (the binding problem).
视觉工作记忆（VWM）是认知（神经）科学中的一个核心概念，被认为是信息交换的枢纽，从而支持与处理视觉信息相关的多种认知功能。在这里，我们将介绍该领域的关键术语和范式，并概述正在进行的争论，本期特刊“视觉工作记忆研究的当前方向”中的文章对此做出了贡献。我们的目的是从这个概述中提取出一些关于以下问题的“新兴”理论见解，例如检查 VWM 的最佳方法、哪些类型的心理表征有助于 VWM 任务的表现，以及 VWM 如何将同一物体的特征与同时保持的物体的特征保持在一起或分开（绑定问题）。
