Fig. 5: Behavioural results in experiment 3.
From: Focusing attention in working and long-term memory through dissociable mechanisms
a Task schematic of the testing trials in experiment 3, where only the perceptual task was different from experiment 2. In this new task, participants identified the direction of the only arrow appearing at one of the four quadrants. b LTM learning curves during the first day of training. Colour reproduction (left panel) and shape reproduction (right panel) errors were sorted into 4 bins (with 10 trials each). c Memory retrieval mean RTs and accuracy for WM and LTM items, grouped by neutral-retrocue and informative-retrocue trials. d Perceptual identification accuracy at WM and LTM locations, grouped by retrocue neutral and matching trials (left panel); means and distributions of perceptual accuracy benefits for WM and LTM locations matching retrocues (right panel). Error bars in b–d represent ±1 SEM across participants (n = 119). In c, d, p values are reported according to two-way ANOVAs or post-hoc t tests with Bonferroni corrections. Shape stimuli in a are adapted from Li, A. Y., Liang, J. C., Lee, A. C. H., & Barense, M. D. (2020). The validated circular shape space: Quantifying the visual similarity of shape. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 149(5), 949–966. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000693.
