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| Author(s): |
Lívia Valenti
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Ribeirão Preto. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto (PCARP/BC) |
| Defense date: | 2016-03-04 |
| Examining board members: |
Cesar Alexis Galera;
Sergio Sheiji Fukusima;
Jeanny Joana Rodrigues Alves de Santana
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| Advisor: | Cesar Alexis Galera |
| Abstract | |
The mental image and visual memory have been considered as different components in the coding of information, and associate to different processes of working memory. Experimental evidence demonstrate, that Dynamic Visual Noise (DVN) impairs the performance of memory tasks based on mental image generation (visual imagination), but have no effect on memory tasks based on visual perception (visual memory). Although several evidences demonstrate that imagination and visual memory tasks have cognitive distinct processes, it doesnt rule out the possibility that they share common processes and that some experimental results that indicate differences between the cognitive processes are resulted from different methodological paradigms used to studied them. Our objective was to equate tasks of visual mental imagery and visual memory, using a recognition task and spatial retro-cue paradigm. Sequences of roman letters were presented in visual (visual memory task) and acoustic (visual mental imagery task) forms, each letter presented in four different spatial locations. The first and second experiment analyzed the time of the retrieval course for imaging process and for the memory process. In the third experiment, we compared the structure of the representations of the two components, with the presentation of DVN during the stage of generating and retrieval. Our results demonstrated that there are no differences in the storage of visual information during the retrieval period and that the DVN only affect the retrieval process efficiency, principally the imagination process. However, the retrievals time course is different for both components, since imagination requires more time than memory to retrieval information. The retro-cue paradigm reveals that spatial attention is required in representation with spatial organization based on visual perception or imagination (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 14/02185-0 - The information retrieval from working memory: evidences based on mental image and visual memory tasks |
| Grantee: | Lívia Valenti |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |