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Data preprocessing Computations of pupil diameter, saccadic rate, fixation duration, and saccade amplitude were based on measures extracted from the raw data by the software provided by SMI. The pupil diameter measure was based on the right eye of each participant, other measures were based on both eyes. For each of these measures, we averaged the values of each participant in each session.
As they note, minorities are “salient” — meaning they are noticeable, precisely because they are the minority A few weeks ago I reported on some newly discovered ways we are biased namely that we consider generic terms such as “people” as equivalent to “men” rather than men and women. This was specifically focused on gender bias but this latest piece recently published shows us that we overestimate diversity in many contexts. Why is this important?
Information stored in visual short-term memory is used ubiquitously in daily life; however, it is forgotten rapidly within seconds. When more items are to be remembered, they are forgotten faster, potentially suggesting that stronger memories are forgotten less rapidly. Here we tested this prediction with three experiments that assessed the influence of memory strength on the rate of forgetting of visual information without manipulating the number of items.
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