Fig. 5: Trade-off between reliance on WM and gathering information from the external world.
From: Multifaceted consequences of visual distraction during natural behaviour
a Our implicit metric for working memory (WM) usage: Copying each object requires its identity and location information (attribute) to be held in memory. Counting successful pick-ups (i.e., identity attribute used) and placements (i.e., location attribute used) in between model fixations provided a metric for the number of attributes used in WM. b Average number of attributes used in WM in both movement effort conditions as a function of distraction, c distribution of attributes used in WM (%). Error bars depict the standard error of the mean (N = 30). Lines show individual participant data. N shows the number of overall sequences included in the analysis The symbols *, **, and *** in the figure denote statistical significance with p-values less than 0.05, 0.01, and 0.001, respectively.
