Poor visual working memory can play an important role in the difficulties experienced by a child with autism, according to our recent research. The aim of this study was to compare the working memory ...

To complete tasks that require storing relevant visual details for short periods of time, such as solving a puzzle, reading or comparing different objects, humans leverage their so-called visual ...

Contrary to previous assumptions, visual short-term memory is not merely based on one kind of information about an object, such as only its colour or only its name. Rather, several types of ...

A new MIT study of how a mammalian brain remembers what it sees shows that while individual images are stored in the visual cortex, the ability to recognize a sequence of sights critically depends on ...

New research shows that in natural vision, visual memory of images is affected by the size of the image on the retina. The findings can have many implications, including on the use of different types ...

Your echoic memory stores audio information (sound). It’s a type of sensory memory along with iconic (visual) and haptic (touch-based). Echoic memory is a subcategory of human memory, which can be ...

Sensory memory is one of several memory types that make up your ability to process and recall what you see. Sensory memory is a brief precursor to short-term memory that allows you to process and ...