NDLI: Differently confident: Susceptibility to bias in perceptual judgments of size interacts with working memory capacity

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Sanchez, Christopher
Copyright Year	2016
Abstract	Much prior research has shown that retrieval of information from long-term memory (LTM) can influence many aspects of complex cognition in situ. However, research also has shown that not all individuals manage information retrieved from LTM in equivalent fashions. Specifically, high working memory capacity (WMC) individuals have been shown to be better able to manage not only what information is retrieved from LTM, but also whether it is applied to the task-at-hand. As such, it is likely that WMC will interact with the biasing influences of prior knowledge on current task performance. In this series of studies, high and low WMC individuals were asked to make perceptual judgments of size that either did or did not activate biasing prior knowledge. Results indicate that when retrieving information from LTM, high WMC individuals are actually more susceptible to perceptual bias and also are erroneously more confident in the accuracy of their response. However, when no retrieval from LTM is necessary, this effect reverses. This suggests that high WMC individuals are indeed able to inhibit such biasing information; however, their overconfidence in the quality of information retrieved from their own LTM can make them susceptible to making errors in perceptual judgments.
Starting Page	1174
Ending Page	1185
Page Count	12
File Format	PDF
ISSN	19433921
Journal	Perception & Psychophysics
Volume Number	78
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	1943393X
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2016-02-22
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Attention Interactions with memory Memory Visual working and short-term memory 2D shape and form Cognitive Psychology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Sensory Systems Linguistics and Language

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