{"pk":49400,"title":"Dimensions of Vulnerability in Visual Working Memory: An AI-Driven Approach to Perceptual Comparison","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Human memory exhibits vulnerability in cognitive tasks; comparing visual working memory with new perceptual input can cause unintended distortions. Prior studies report systematic memory distortions post-comparison, but understanding their impact on real-world objects and identifying contributing visual features remains challenging. We propose an AI-driven framework generating naturalistic stimuli based on behavioral object dimensions to elicit similarity-induced memory biases. Using two stimuli types—image wheels (dimension-edited) and dimension wheels (activation-based)—we conducted three visual working memory experiments under conditions: no perceptual comparison, image wheel comparison, and dimension wheel comparison. Results show that both similar images and dimensions induce memory distortions. Visual dimensions (e.g., shape/texture) are more distortion-prone than semantic ones (e.g., category), indicating that naturalistic stimuli's object dimensions critically influence memory vulnerability.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Artificial Intelligence; Cognitive Neuroscience; Psychology; Memory; Perception"}],"section":"Papers with Poster Presentation","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9c35z6sn","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Yuang","middle_name":"","last_name":"Cao","name_suffix":"","institution":"Southern University of Science and Technology","department":""},{"first_name":"Jiachen","middle_name":"","last_name":"Zou","name_suffix":"","institution":"Southern University of Science and Technology","department":""},{"first_name":"Chen","middle_name":"","last_name":"Wei","name_suffix":"","institution":"Southern University of Science and Technology","department":""},{"first_name":"Quanying","middle_name":"","last_name":"Liu","name_suffix":"","institution":"Southern University of Science and Technology","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2025-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49400/galley/37362/download/"}]}