How Does Processing Affect Storage in Working Memory Tasks? Evidence for Both Domain-General and Domain-Specific Effects

Autor/inn/en	Jarrold, Christopher; Tam, Helen; Baddeley, Alan D.; Harvey, Caroline E.
Titel	How Does Processing Affect Storage in Working Memory Tasks? Evidence for Both Domain-General and Domain-Specific Effects
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 37 (2011) 3, S.688-705 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0278-7393
DOI	10.1037/a0022527
Schlagwörter	Short Term Memory; Adults; Language Processing; Cognitive Processes; Reaction Time; Foreign Countries; United Kingdom (Bristol) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kurzzeitgedächtnis; Sprachverarbeitung; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Reaktionsvermögen; Ausland
Abstract	Two studies that examine whether the forgetting caused by the processing demands of working memory tasks is domain-general or domain-specific are presented. In each, separate groups of adult participants were asked to carry out either verbal or nonverbal operations on exactly the same processing materials while maintaining verbal storage items. The imposition of verbal processing tended to produce greater forgetting even though verbal processing operations took no longer to complete than did nonverbal processing operations. However, nonverbal processing did cause forgetting relative to baseline control conditions, and evidence from the timing of individuals' processing responses suggests that individuals in both processing groups slowed their responses in order to "refresh" the memoranda. Taken together the data suggest that processing has a domain-general effect on working memory performance by impeding refreshment of memoranda but can also cause effects that appear domain-specific and that result from either blocking of rehearsal or interference. (Contains 5 figures, 5 tables and 4 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10