Recall cues interfere with retrieval from visuospatial working memory.

Autor: Tabi YA; Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, UK.; Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK., Husain M; Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, UK.; Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK., Manohar SG; Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, UK.; Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: British journal of psychology (London, England : 1953) [Br J Psychol] 2019 May; Vol. 110 (2), pp. 288-305. Date of Electronic Publication: 2019 Jan 02.
DOI: 10.1111/bjop.12374
Abstrakt: Visuospatial working memory allows us to hold multiple visual objects over short delays. It is typically tested by presenting an array of objects, then after a delay showing a 'probe' indicating which memory item to recall or reproduce by adjusting a target feature. However, recent studies demonstrate that information at the time of probe can disrupt recall. Here, in three experiments we test whether traditional memory probes, which contain features that compete with the feature to be recalled, may themselves interfere with performance. We asked participants to report the direction of one of the several coloured arrows in memory, based on its colour. First, we demonstrate that recall is better when the probe is initially just a coloured dot, rather than a coloured arrow which has to be adjusted to match orientation memory, consistent with interference from features of the probe itself. Second, this interference is present even when a mask follows the memory array, suggesting that the interference does not work by degrading immediate or iconic memory. Finally, when items are shown sequentially, the first and last items are invulnerable to probe interference. Our findings support recent theories of associative recall, in which probes reactivate features in WM, retrieving information by pattern completion.
(© 2019 The Authors. British Journal of Psychology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Psychological Society.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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