Memory, Short-Term

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Movement preparation and working memory: a behavioural dissociation.

We can cross temporal sensorimotor contingencies by remembering sensory events or by anticipating motor responses. Here we tested the hypothesis that sensory and motor representations can be accessed according to different temporal dynamics. We predicted ...
Ivan Toni, Daniel Thoenissen, Karl Zilles, Michael Niedeggen (Exp Brain Res, 200201)
movement-preparation-working-memory-behavioural-dissociation.asp

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Verbal short-term memory as an articulatory system: evidence from an alternative paradigm.

In a series of experiments, the role of articulatory rehearsal in verbal [corrected] short-term memory was examined via a shadowing-plus-recall paradigm. In this paradigm, subjects shadowed a word target presented closely after an auditory memory list ...
Him Cheung, Lana Wooltorton (Q J Exp Psychol A, 200201)
verbal-short-term-memory-articulatory-system-evidence-alternative.asp

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Capturing the suffix: cognitive streaming in immediate serial recall.

Adding an irrelevant item to the end of an auditory to-be-remembered list increases error on the last list items appreciably, known as the suffix effect. The phenomenon of auditory capture (e.g., Bregman & Rudnicky, 1975), namely, the tendency for a ...
Alastair P Nicholls, Dylan M Jones (J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn, 200201)
capturing-suffix-cognitive-streaming-immediate-serial-recall.asp

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Memory for the position of stationary objects: disentangling foveal bias and memory averaging.

The perceived and remembered position of stationary target objects is subject to a large number of distortions. Objects are localized toward the fovea, and when an additional object (distractor) is presented, a tendency to average target and distractor ...
Dirk Kerzel (Vision Res, 200201)
memory-position-stationary-objects-disentangling-foveal-bias-memory.asp

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Working memory and the suppression of reflexive saccades.

Conscious behavioral intentions can frequently fail under conditions of attentional depletion. In attempting to trace the cognitive origin of this effect, we hypothesized that failures of action control--specifically, oculomotor movement--can result from ...
Jason P Mitchell, C Neil Macrae, Iain D Gilchrist (J Cogn Neurosci, 200201)
working-memory-suppression-reflexive-saccades.asp

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Increased brain activity in frontal and parietal cortex underlies the development of visuospatial working memory capacity during childhood.

The aim of this study was to identify changes in brain activity associated with the increase in working memory (WM) capacity that occurs during childhood and early adulthood. Functional MRI (fMRI) was used to measure brain activity in subjects between 9 ...
Torkel Klingberg, Hans Forssberg, Helena Westerberg (J Cogn Neurosci, 200201)
increased-brain-activity-frontal-parietal-cortex-underlies.asp

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Effects of smoking abstinence on visuospatial working memory function in schizophrenia.

Schizophrenic patients have impairments in cognitive function, including deficits in visuospatial working memory (VSWM). VSWM is mediated, in part, by prefrontal cortical dopamine (DA) function, and dysregulation of prefrontal cortical DA systems may ...
Tony P George, Jennifer C Vessicchio, Angelo Termine, Deanna M Sahady, Cory A Head, W Thomas Pepper, Thomas R Kosten, Bruce E Wexler (Neuropsychopharmacology, 200201)
effects-smoking-abstinence-visuospatial-working-memory-function.asp

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Encoding and output order processes in short-term order recall of distinctive items.

Adults recalled the order of the letters in one of two four-letter segments following a distractor task. They knew in advance the identity of the letters in each segment. A letter was made distinctive by replacing it with a red dash. This unusual form of ...
Alice F Healy, Thomas F Cunningham, James T Parker (Memory, 200201)
encoding-output-order-processes-short-term-order-recall-distinctive.asp

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Strong cues are not necessarily weak: Thomson and Tulving (1970) and the encoding specificity principle revisited.

Performance on tests in which there is control over reporting (e.g., cued recall with the option to withhold responses) can be characterized by four parameters: free- and forced-report retrieval (correct responses retrieved from memory when the option to ...
Philip A Higham (Mem Cognit, 200201)
strong-cues-not-necessarily-weak-thomson-tulving--encoding.asp

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Forgetting to remember: the functional relationship of decay and interference.

Functional decay theory proposes that decay and interference, historically viewed as competing accounts of forgetting, are instead functionally related. The theory posits that (a) when an attribute must be updated frequently in memory, its current value ...
Erik M Altmann, Wayne D Gray (Psychol Sci, 200201)
forgetting-remember-functional-relationship-decay-interference.asp