title: Implicit visual working memory.
abstract: Psychophysical studies of the short-term memory for attributes or dimensions of the visual stimulus that are important in online perceptual processing of visual images - spatial frequency, orientation, contrast, motion - identify a low-level perceptual memory mechanism. This mechanism is located early in the visual processing stream, prior to the structural description system, but beyond the primary visual cortex (V1); it is composed of a series of parallel, special-purpose perceptual mechanisms with independent but limited processing resources. Each mechanism is dedicated to the analysis of a single attribute or dimension of the visual stimulus, and is coupled to a memory store. The evidence for this model from psychophysical and recent functional brain imaging studies is reviewed.
authors.affiliation: Center for the Study of Human Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Norway. svein.magnussen@psykologi.uio.no
authors.forename: Svein
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Magnussen
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D001931:Brain Mapping; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008570:Memory, Short-Term / Q000502:physiology*; D008959:Models, Neurological; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*