Pictorial and conceptual representation of glimpsed pictures. Potter, M. C., Staub, A., & O'Connor, D. H J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform, 30(3):478-89, 2004.
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Pictures seen in a rapid sequence are remembered briefly, but most are forgotten within a few seconds (M. C. Potter. A. Staub, J. Rado. & D. H. O'Connor. 2002). The authors investigated the pictorial and conceptual components of this fleeting memory by presenting 5 pictured scenes and immediately testing recognition of verbal titles (e.g., people at a table) or recognition of the pictures themselves. Recognition declined during testing, but initial performance was higher and the decline steeper when pictures were tested. A final experiment included test decoy pictures that were conceptually similar to but visually distinct from the original pictures. Yeses to decoys were higher than yeses to other distractors. Fleeting memory for glimpsed pictures has a strong conceptual component (conceptual short-term memory), but there is additional highly volatile pictorial memory (pictorial short-term memory) that is not tapped hy a gist title or decoy picture.
@Article{Potter2004,
  author   = {Mary C. Potter and Adrian Staub and Daniel H O'Connor},
  journal  = {J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform},
  title    = {Pictorial and conceptual representation of glimpsed pictures.},
  year     = {2004},
  number   = {3},
  pages    = {478-89},
  volume   = {30},
  abstract = {Pictures seen in a rapid sequence are remembered briefly, but most
	are forgotten within a few seconds (M. C. Potter. A. Staub, J. Rado.
	& D. H. O'Connor. 2002). The authors investigated the pictorial and
	conceptual components of this fleeting memory by presenting 5 pictured
	scenes and immediately testing recognition of verbal titles (e.g.,
	people at a table) or recognition of the pictures themselves. Recognition
	declined during testing, but initial performance was higher and the
	decline steeper when pictures were tested. A final experiment included
	test decoy pictures that were conceptually similar to but visually
	distinct from the original pictures. Yeses to decoys were higher
	than yeses to other distractors. Fleeting memory for glimpsed pictures
	has a strong conceptual component (conceptual short-term memory),
	but there is additional highly volatile pictorial memory (pictorial
	short-term memory) that is not tapped hy a gist title or decoy picture.},
  doi      = {10.1037/0096-1523.30.3.478},
  keywords = {Attention, Humans, Light, Memory, Motion Perception, Reaction Time, Recognition (Psychology), Semantics, Visual Perception, 15161380},
}

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