Control of the Contents of Working Memory--A Comparison of Two Paradigms and Two Age Groups

Autor/in	Oberauer, Klaus
Titel	Control of the Contents of Working Memory--A Comparison of Two Paradigms and Two Age Groups
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 31 (2005) 4, S.714-728 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0278-7393
Schlagwörter	Long Term Memory; Models; Comparative Analysis; Experiments; Young Adults; Recognition (Psychology); Task Analysis; Arithmetic; Cues; Reaction Time; Age Differences; Cognitive Processes; Older Adults + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Langzeitgedächtnis; Analogiemodell; Erprobung; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Recognition; Wiedererkennen; Aufgabenanalyse; Addition; Arithmetik; Arithmetikunterricht; Rechnen; Stichwort; Reaktionsvermögen; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Älterer Erwachsener
Abstract	Two experiments investigated whether young and old adults can temporarily remove information from a capacity-limited central component of working memory (WM) into another component, the activated part of long-term memory (LTM). Experiment 1 used a modified Sternberg recognition task (S. Sternberg, 1969); Experiment 2 used an arithmetic memory-updating task. In both paradigms, participants memorized 2 lists, one of which was cued as temporarily irrelevant. Removal of the irrelevant list from capacity-limited WM was indexed by the disappearance of list-length effects of that list on latencies for concurrent processing tasks. Young adults could outsource the irrelevant list within 2-3 s and retrieve it back into the central part of WM later. Old adults showed the same flexibility in the arithmetic updating task but seemed somewhat less able or inclined to temporarily move information into the activated part of LTM in the modified Sternberg task. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10