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Strategies in visuospatial working memory for learning virtual shapes
Author(s) -
Smith Glenn Gordon,
Ritzhaupt Albert Dieter,
Tjoe Edwin
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
applied cognitive psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.719
H-Index - 100
eISSN - 1099-0720
pISSN - 0888-4080
DOI - 10.1002/acp.1620
Subject(s) - psychology , mental rotation , working memory , cognitive psychology , perspective (graphical) , context (archaeology) , association (psychology) , task (project management) , cognition , artificial intelligence , computer science , paleontology , management , neuroscience , economics , psychotherapist , biology
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.