The long-term consequences of retrieval demands during working memory
Autor: | Vanessa M. Loaiza, Charlotte Doherty, Paul Howlett |
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Jazyk: | angličtina |
Rok vydání: | 2020 |
Předmět: |
Memory
Long-Term Memory Episodic Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 050105 experimental psychology Article 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Distraction Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Episodic memory Language Complex span Retrieval Working memory 05 social sciences Term (time) Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology Memory Short-Term Covert Mental Recall Simple span Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Cognitive psychology |
Zdroj: | Memory & Cognition |
ISSN: | 1532-5946 0090-502X |
Popis: | Although it is well known that distraction impairs immediate retrieval of items maintained in working memory (WM; e.g., during complex span tasks), some evidence suggests that these items are more likely to be recalled from episodic memory (EM) compared with items that were studied without any distraction (e.g., during simple span tasks). One account for this delayed advantage of complex span over simple span, or the McCabe effect (McCabe, Journal of Memory and Language, 58[2], 480–494, 2008), is that complex span affords covert retrieval opportunities that facilitate later retrieval from EM by cumulatively reactivating each successively presented item after distraction. This explanation focuses on the processing that occurs during presentation and maintenance of the items, but no work to date has explored whether the differential demands of immediate retrieval between simple and complex span may explain the effect. Accordingly, these experiments examined the impact of immediate retrieval demands on the McCabe effect by comparing typical immediate serial-recall instructions (i.e., recalling the words in their exact order of presentation) to immediate free-recall (Experiments 1–2) and no-recall (Experiments 2 and 3) instructions. The results suggested that the nature of retrieval may constrain the McCabe effect in some situations (Experiments 1–2), but its demands do not drive the McCabe effect given that it was observed in both serial-recall and no-recall conditions (Experiment 3). Instead, activities such as covert retrieval during the processing phase may underlie the McCabe effect, thus further evidencing the importance of processing in WM for the long-term retention of information. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.3758/s13421-020-01079-5) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
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