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Variability in encoding precision accounts for visual short-term memory limitations

Ronald van den Berg,Hongsup Shin,2 Authors,W. Ma

2012 · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1117465109
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 534 Citations

TLDR

The model accurately accounts for all aspects of the data, including apparent guessing, and outperforms slot models in formal model comparison and suggests that VSTM resource is continuous and variable rather than discrete and fixed and might explain why subjective experience of V STM is not all or none.