The conductors of this experiment was Weiwei Zhang a postdoctoral scholar, and Steve Luck a professor of psychology. There experiment was about short-term memory, 12 adults where participating, and each one was a shown three different colors on a computer screen, at the end of each color they where given a color wheel to match the colors. The conductors also took into account the amount of time it took them to observe the color and choosing the color on the wheel. They also did the same process but with shapes instead of colors. This could be important in everyday life, because it would provide a mechanism to help us avoid the confusion that might occur if we tried to make decisions on the basis of weak, inaccurate memories. Zhang and Luck are currently incorporating these findings into a study of short-term memory dysfunction in people with schizophrenia.
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