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Strategic Control over Extent and Timing of Distractor-Based Response Activation
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Jost, Kerstin; Wendt, Mike; Luna-Rodriguez, Aquiles; Löw, Andreas; Jacobsen, Thomas – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2017
In choice reaction time (RT) tasks, performance is often influenced by the presence of nominally irrelevant stimuli, referred to as distractors. Recent research provided evidence that distractor processing can be adjusted to the utility of the distractors: Distractors predictive of the upcoming target/response were more attended to and also…
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Stimuli, College Students, Foreign Countries
Variation in Working Memory Capacity and Temporal-Contextual Retrieval from Episodic Memory
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Spillers, Gregory J.; Unsworth, Nash – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
Unsworth and Engle (2007) recently proposed a model of working memory capacity characterized by, among other things, the ability to conduct a strategic, cue-dependent search of long-term memory. Although this ability has been found to mediate individual variation in a number of higher order cognitive tasks, the component processes involved remain…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Long Term Memory, Probability, Recall (Psychology)