The Effects of Prior Stimulus Familiarity on Visual Working Memory Maintenance and Retrieval

We previously demonstrated that stimulus familiarity could speed up Visual Working Memory (VWM) consolidation, which can subsequently manifest as an increase in the amount of information that can be retained in VWM if VWM consolidation is incomplete. The present study further assesses whether this familiarity-related advantage in VWM processing can also manifest to VWM maintenance and retrieval. Experiment 1 manipulated retention intervals of a...