Hu Jingjing, Zheng Xutao, Xu Haokui
School of Education, Zhejiang International Studies University, Hangzhou 310028, China.
Department of Psychology and Behavior Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310023, China.
Behav Sci (Basel). 2024 Dec 24;15(1):1. doi: 10.3390/bs15010001.
Visual sensory memory constructs representations of the physical information of visual objects. However, few studies have investigated whether abstract information, such as semantic information, is also involved in these representations. This study utilized a masking technique combined with the partial report paradigm to examine whether visual sensory memory representation contains semantic information. Here, we regarded the concept of orientation carried by the visual stimulus as semantic information. In three experiments, participants were asked to remember the orientation of arrows. Visual stimuli with orientation information (triangles, rectangles, and Chinese characters) and without orientation information (circles, squares, and different Chinese characters) were used as masks. The results showed that memory performance was worse when masks contained orientation information compared to when they did not, as similar orientation semantic information between masks and targets created visual representation conflicts. These findings suggest that visual sensory memory representation includes the semantic information of orientation.
视觉感觉记忆构建视觉对象物理信息的表征。然而，很少有研究调查诸如语义信息等抽象信息是否也参与这些表征。本研究采用掩蔽技术结合部分报告范式，以检验视觉感觉记忆表征是否包含语义信息。在此，我们将视觉刺激所携带的方向概念视为语义信息。在三个实验中，要求参与者记住箭头的方向。带有方向信息的视觉刺激（三角形、矩形和汉字）和不带有方向信息的视觉刺激（圆形、正方形和不同的汉字）被用作掩蔽。结果表明，与不包含方向信息时相比，当掩蔽包含方向信息时，记忆表现更差，因为掩蔽和目标之间相似的方向语义信息会产生视觉表征冲突。这些发现表明，视觉感觉记忆表征包括方向的语义信息。
