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Oberauer, Klaus; Bialkova, Svetlana – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2011
Six young adults practiced for 36 sessions on a working-memory updating task in which 2 digits and 2 spatial positions were continuously updated. Participants either did 1 updating operation at a time, or attempted 1 numerical and 1 spatial operation at the same time. In contrast to previous research using the same paradigm with a single digit and…
Descriptors: Attention, Young Adults, Short Term Memory, Costs
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Oberauer, Klaus; Kliegl, Reinhold – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2004
The authors tested the hypothesis that with adequate practice, people can execute 2 cognitive operations in working memory simultaneously. In Experiment 1, 6 students practiced updating 2 items in working memory through 2 sequences of operations (1 numerical, 1 spatial). In different blocks, imperative stimuli for the 2 sequences of operations…
Descriptors: Costs, Memory, Cognitive Processes, Task Analysis