APS

2026 APS Annual Convention · 2026

Saliency Impacts Working Memory during Recall of Words from Natural Scenes

Barcelona, Spain · May 2026

Posters · Thinking & Remembering: Attention, Memory & Control

  • Görkem Sayar
    Nişantaşı University
  • Nahide Dicle Dövencioğlu
    Middle East Technical University

Abstract

In the study, we developed 3 conditions with specific words with neutral words embedded on background scenes: (i) perceptually salient words, (ii) semantically salient words (iii) both. Semantically salient words were significantly more recalled (N=16, M=22.6).

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