The Role of Working Memory and Long-term Memory in Visual Search

Student: Burnip Alexander

Faculty: Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience

Educational Programme: Cognitive Sciences and Technologies: From Neuron to Cognition (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2019

This research is based on an experiment conducted to investigate whether participants could be primed during a visual search task with a low salient stimuli in the background of the visual search task. It was presumed that subjects would experience inattentional blindness and not notice the background object. (N= 10) Although more than half of the participants didn't notice the background object and were faster at finding the relevant target in the next visual search task it wasn't to a significant level. (p-value = 0.224)

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