| Project/Area Number |
22K13874
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 10040:Experimental psychology-related
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| Research Institution | Waseda University |
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Principal Investigator |
KONG Garry 早稲田大学, 高等研究所, 講師(任期付) (70906370)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2022-04-01 – 2025-03-31
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| Project Status |
Granted (Fiscal Year 2023)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥900,000)
Fiscal Year 2024: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2023: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
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| Keywords | Visual Working Memory / Cognitive Psychology / Visual Cognition |
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| Outline of Research at the Start |
Working memory is one of the most important of cognitive psychological functions. Investigating it is typically a resource intensive process involving hundreds of trials of recalling static images. This project will develop a new experimental paradigm to measure visual working memory based on recalling dynamic sequences. By introducing movement into memory, the task remains simple and intuitive, but aggregating the memory response across time makes it eminently more efficient, powerful and representative of the true memory state.
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
The Visual Working Memory Tracking paradigm created in the previous year has been written up and submitted for publication at an academic journal. During the lengthy peer review process, we have added an extra analysis to this paradigm.
A study validating the paradigm by showing that performance on the task both interferes with, and is interfered by, standard working memory tasks, has been completed. Results are currently being written up, and will be presented at the Vision Sciences Society 2024.
The first experiment of the final study in this project has also been conducted, looking at how performance on the new paradigm, and not the old working memory paradigm, interferes with motor control. This experiment will be presented at the Asia Pacific Conference on Vision, held in Singapore in 2024.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
Delays during the peer review process have prevented the publication of the first and most important study. However, the research itself is on track to be finished this year.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
Study 1 will be modified as required by the peer review process until it is accepted.
Study 2 will be written up and submitted once Study 1 is accepted.
Study 3 will contain two more experiments. These two experiments will be conducted during the middle of the year. The study would be finished by the end of the year.
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