Assessing Capacity and Control of Visual Working Memory

ii Acknowledgments iii List of Tables v List of Figure vi Chapter 1: Introduction 1 A brief look at early visual memory research 6 Estimating visual working memory capacity using change detection 14 Visual working memory as a flexible, continuous resource 28 Assessing capacity and comparison difficulty in change detection 36 Chapter 2: Experiments 38 Experimental overview 38 Experiment 1 39 A principled approach to forced-choice capacity estimation 42 Experiment 2 57 Experiment 3 66 General Discussion 75 References 79

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