| Autor: |
Tsubomi H; School of Humanities, University of Toyama., Fukuda K; Department of Psychology, University of Toronto Mississauga.; Department of Psychology, University of Toronto., Kikumoto A; Department of Cognitive, Linguistic & Psychological Sciences, Brown University., Mayr U; Department of Psychology, University of Oregon., Vogel EK; Department of Psychology, University of Chicago.; Institute for Mind and Biology, University of Chicago. |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Zdroj: |
Psychological science [Psychol Sci] 2024 Sep; Vol. 35 (9), pp. 995-1009. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jun 24. |
| DOI: |
10.1177/09567976241246709 |
| Abstrakt: |
Working memory (WM) is a goal-directed memory system that actively maintains a limited amount of task-relevant information to serve the current goal. By this definition, WM maintenance should be terminated after the goal is accomplished, spontaneously removing no-longer-relevant information from WM. Past studies have failed to provide direct evidence of spontaneous removal of WM content by allowing participants to engage in a strategic reallocation of WM resources to competing information within WM. By contrast, we provide direct neural and behavioral evidence that visual WM content can be largely removed less than 1 s after it becomes obsolete, in the absence of a strategic allocation of resources (total N = 442 adults). These results demonstrate that visual WM is intrinsically a goal-directed system, and spontaneous removal provides a means for capacity-limited WM to keep up with ever-changing demands in a dynamic environment. |
| Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
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