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Maidment, David W.; Macken, William J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2012
Classical cognitive accounts of verbal short-term memory (STM) invoke an abstract, phonological level of representation which, although it may be derived differently via different modalities, is itself amodal. Key evidence for this view is that serial recall of phonologically similar verbal items (e.g., the letter sounds "b",…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Recall (Psychology), Acoustics, Memory
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Hughes, Robert W.; Hurlstone, Mark J.; Marsh, John E.; Vachon, Francois; Jones, Dylan M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2013
The influence of top-down cognitive control on 2 putatively distinct forms of distraction was investigated. Attentional capture by a task-irrelevant auditory deviation (e.g., a female-spoken token following a sequence of male-spoken tokens)--as indexed by its disruption of a visually presented recall task--was abolished when focal-task engagement…
Descriptors: Testing, Selection, Attention, Recall (Psychology)
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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