Visual long-term memory has a massive storage capacity for object details

1. Visual long-term memory has a massive storage capacity for object details Talia Konkle Aude Oliva Timothy Brady George Alvarez

2. This is an online demo from http://cvcl.mit.edu/MM For more information about the study, please visit the website. Citation: T. F. Brady, T. Konkle, G. A. Alvarez & A. Oliva (2008). Visual long-term memory has a massive storage capacity for object details. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U. S. A.

3. In the real ‘massive memory’ experiment, subjects watched almost 3000 objects flash by for 5 and a half hours, and were then tested on their memory for those objects.

4. In the real ‘massive memory’ experiment, subjects watched almost 3000 objects flash by for 5 and a half hours, and were then tested on their memory for those objects. • In this demo you’ll only see objects for about 2 minutes before being tested on them, but it should give you a feel for how much you can remember about each object.

5. Instructions A stream of objects will be presented on the screen for ~ 1 second each. Your primary task: Remember them ALL! afterwards you will be tested with… Completely different objects... Different exemplars of the same kind of object... Different states of the same object...

6. Instructions Detect exact repeats anywhere in the stream -- and clap if you see them Your other task:

7. Ready? (Seriously, get ready to clap. The images go by fast…)

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27. 10 Minutes Later...

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43. 30 Minutes Later...