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This follow-up experiment will explore the effects of providing subjects with an explicit strategy on change detection tasks with familiar items. In the second follow-up study, we found that providing subjects with a strategy for selecting the correct object (first, attempt to perform change detection, and if that fails, select the familiar object) succeeded in increasing accuracy to 6AFC memory performance levels, but no higher (as would be predicted by some sort of additive combination of performance on the two tasks laid out in the strategy). A possible reason for this may be the framing of the strategy, which is in some way preventing subjects from combining the two sources of information available to them. This follow-up study will test whether changing the primary task in the memory/change detection hybrid task will affect performance. In this version, subjects will be instructed to identify the familiar item in the second array, and that if they cannot remember, to try to detect changes, as a familiar object will always be the one that changes from the first array. Additionally, after each of these trials, subjects will report whether or not the object they selected changed. We will use this information to determine the extent to which subjects are using the change information. Prior experiments also found lower 2AFC memory performance than prior research by Brady et al., so this experiment will also incorporate an n-back repetition task during the study phase to more closely match the Brady et al methodology. Objects will occasionally repeat during the study phase, and subjects will be instructed to identify them with a keypress. This may increase subject attentiveness and boost 2AFC memory scores. The experimental procedure and data analysis will be similar to that of previous experiments. Subjects will study a series of objects while monitoring for repeated objects, and then complete four tasks: the combined-strategy task in which they look for a familiar object in the second array, using change detection when memory fails; change detection with unfamiliar objects, with instructions simply to find the change; a 6AFC memory test; and a 2AFC memory test. Results from the second follow-up study indicate that subjects do not or cannot combine information from long term memory and online, change-detection information to increase response accuracy beyond their performance on each task alone. This may be a result of the particular strategy, and perhaps by using a different set of instructions, subjects will be able to increase their response accuracy. The data analysis procedure will examine the following comparisons: * Performance on the hybrid task compared to the unstudied change detection task * Performance on the hybrid task compared to the 6AFC memory task * Performance on the 2AFC memory task compared to the 6AFC memory task
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