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Working memory plays an important role in human activities across academic,professional, and social settings. Working memory is dened as the memory extensively
involved in goal-directed behaviors in which information must be retained and
manipulated to ensure successful task execution. The aim of this research is to understand
the effect of image captioning with image description on an individual's
working memory. A study was conducted with eight neutral images comprising situations
relatable to daily life such that each image could have a positive or negative
description associated with the outcome of the situation in the image. The study
consisted of three rounds where the first and second round involved two parts and
the third round consisted of one part. The image was captioned a total of five times
across the entire study. The findings highlighted that only 25% of participants were
able to recall the captions which they captioned for an image after a span of 9-15
days; when comparing the recall rate of the captions, 50% of participants were able
to recall the image caption from the previous round in the present round; and out of
the positive and negative description associated with the image, 65% of participants
recalled the former description rather than the latter. The conclusions drawn from the
study are participants tend to retain information for longer periods than the expected
duration for working memory, which may be because participants were able to relate
the images with their everyday life situations and given a situation with positive and
negative information, the human brain is aligned towards positive information over
negative information.
ContributorsUppara, Nithiya Shree (Author) / McDaniel, Troy (Thesis advisor) / Venkateswara, Hemanth (Thesis advisor) / Bryan, Chris (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2021