Invisible Distractors and Working Memory Interaction from Behavioral Experiments

Two experiments investigate whether subliminal stimuli can access and interact with ongoing working memory representations. The data includes results from delayed match-to-sample judgment tasks where visible or invisible distractors were presented during a memory delay. The dataset, 2.6 MB in size, was authored by Siyun Liu and last updated on April 16, 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling the impact of invisible distractors on working memory performance based on the delayed match-to-sample paradigm.
• Analyzing the effect of distractor category (same vs. different) on memory accuracy as described in the experimental design.
• Investigating the nature of subliminal interaction by manipulating the level of difference between sample, distractor, and probe as in Experiment 2.

Strengths

• Experimental invisibility of distractors was verified using a forced-choice discrimination task.
• Data is available in multiple formats including CSV and RData for accessibility.
• Dataset is published under a permissive CC0-1.0 license.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect bias inherent to the specific behavioral experiment paradigm used.

Provenance

Source

Siyun Liu via figshare

Collection Method

Data collected from two behavioral experiments involving delayed match-to-sample judgment tasks.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-16 08:09:17; freshness should be verified.