News Finding: For instance, the difference between search times, with and without naming the target object, indicate a key role for a kind of brief visual memory known as working memory, that helps us remember what we just saw as we look to something new.
Paper Finding: Figure 2A depicts mean RT for the Silent and the Label conditions as a function of distractor set size.
News Context: Vales said their research results "begin to tell us precisely how words help, the kinds of cognitive processes words tap into to change how children behave. For instance, the difference between search times, with and without naming the target object, indicate a key role for a kind of brief visual memory known as working memory, that helps us remember what we just saw as we look to something new. Words put ideas in working memory faster than images."
Paper Context: The interaction of these two factors was not significant [F(3, 90) = 1.33, p = .27]. Figure 2A depicts mean RT for the Silent and the Label conditions as a function of distractor set size. A mixed 2 9 4 analysis of variance with condition as the between-subjects factor and set size as the withinsubjects factor yielded a significant main effect of set size [F(3, 90) = 27.30, p < 0 .001], reflecting the fact that RT increased as the number of distractors increased.