Visual Short-Term Memory and Attention: An Investigation of Familiarity and Stroke Count in Chinese Characters

Autor/inn/en	Dall, Jonas Olsen; Wang, Yong-ming; Cai, Xin-lu; Chan, Raymond C. K.; Sørensen, Thomas Alrik
Titel	Visual Short-Term Memory and Attention: An Investigation of Familiarity and Stroke Count in Chinese Characters
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 47 (2021) 2, S.282-294 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Wang, Yong-ming) ORCID (Cai, Xin-lu) ORCID (Chan, Raymond C. K.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0278-7393
DOI	10.1037/xlm0000950
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; College Students; Visual Stimuli; Short Term Memory; Attention; Chinese; Visual Perception; Alphabets; Familiarity; Prior Learning; Cognitive Processes; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Collegestudent; Kurzzeitgedächtnis; Aufmerksamkeit; China; Chinesen; Visuelle Wahrnehmung; Buchstabenschrift; Vorkenntnisse; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess
Abstract	Using Chinese characters, we investigated how stroke count and frequency of use influence attention and short-term memory (STM) encoding in Mainland Chinese speakers. To isolate specific components of attention we employed the Theory of Visual Attention (TVA), which allowed estimates of STM capacity, processing speed, and the threshold of visual perception. An analysis of TVA parameters revealed that familiarity affects both the memory capacity and processing speed of objects, whereas the threshold for visual perception remained unaffected. Interestingly, our results also indicate that modulation of attention is driven solely by familiarity with the characters, independent of the actual physical aspect of Chinese characters. We propose that mental categories and prior knowledge play a vital role in the processing of information in attention, as well as in how this information is stored and represented in visual STM. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01