{"pk":27413,"title":"Comparison strategies in the change detection task are influenced by taskdemands.","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Current models of visual working memory (VWM) assume that comparing memory with the environment obligato-rily involves a spatial comparison process. Can changing task demands determine whether a spatial or non-spatial comparisonprocesses is employed? Study displays of three colored shapes were presented, followed by test displays of three colouredshapes. Participants decided whether a feature changed between displays. Task-irrelevant changes to the probed item’s lo-cations or feature bindings reduced memory performance, suggesting that participants employed spatially guided comparisonprocess. This finding occurred irrespective of whether participants decided about the whole display, or only a single cueditem within the display. When task-irrelevant feature changes occurred amongst uncued items, performance was unaffected byirrelevant changes in location or feature bindings. These results suggest that participants can flexibly shift comparison strat-egy in response to changing task demands. These findings have implications for models of VWM, which assume obligatorylocation-based comparisons in VWM.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Posters: Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2336w7qb","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Rob","middle_name":"","last_name":"Udale","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Bristol","department":""},{"first_name":"Simon","middle_name":"","last_name":"Farrell","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Western Australia","department":""},{"first_name":"Chris","middle_name":"","last_name":"Kent","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Bristol","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-02T02:00:00+08:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27413/galley/17049/download/"}]}