What makes it memorable : meaning, likability and reward associations on visual working memory

• Main Author: Yong, Yvette Yan Ni
• Other Authors: Gerrit Maus
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology::Consciousness and cognition; DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology::Experimental psychology; DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology::Affection and emotion
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/73372
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We investigated the effects of past reward associations and preferences on visual working memory (VWM) by using stimulus sets which are more visually complex than those used in earlier studies. The other variable of interest is stimuli meaningfulness – specifically, we explored if VWM performance a...