Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP170102559

Funded Activity Summary

Testing a relational account for visual working memory. This project aims to test whether Becker's relational theory of attention can explain visual working memory performance, the ability to remember visual items over brief time periods. According to the relational account, elementary features such as colours are encoded relative to other features in the context (e.g. as redder, larger, darker). Our ability to detect a change in a feature would depend on the features in the context, and on whether the context remains constant. This project expects to provide insights into how features are represented in memory, and to predict which items will be remembered. This could help to develop interactions and therapies for the ageing population and in clinical disorders.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2017

End Date: 31-12-2020

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $210,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Neurocognitive Patterns and Neural Networks | Sensory Processes, Perception and Performance | Psychology | Knowledge Representation and Machine Learning

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Health Education and Promotion | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences |

Other Keywords

Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Health Education and Promotion | Knowledge Representation and Machine Learning | Neurocognitive Patterns and Neural Networks | Psychology | Sensory Processes, Perception and Performance

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