Visual and Spatial Working Memory Are Not that Dissociated after All: A Time-Based Resource-Sharing Account

Autor/inn/en	Vergauwe, Evie; Barrouillet, Pierre; Camos, Valerie
Titel	Visual and Spatial Working Memory Are Not that Dissociated after All: A Time-Based Resource-Sharing Account
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 35 (2009) 4, S.1012-1028 (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0278-7393
DOI	10.1037/a0015859
Schlagwörter	Short Term Memory; Shared Resources and Services; Experiments; Models; Cognitive Processes; Recall (Psychology); Undergraduate Students; Foreign Countries; Color; Spatial Ability; Visual Stimuli; Switzerland (Geneva) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kurzzeitgedächtnis; Gemeinwirtschaft; Erprobung; Analogiemodell; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Abberufung; Ausland; Colour; Farbbezeichnung; Farbe; Räumliches Vorstellungsvermögen
Abstract	Examinations of interference between visual and spatial materials in working memory have suggested domain- and process-based fractionations of visuo-spatial working memory. The present study examined the role of central time-based resource sharing in visuo-spatial working memory and assessed its role in obtained interference patterns. Visual and spatial storage were combined with both visual and spatial on-line processing components in computer-paced working memory span tasks (Experiment 1) and in a selective interference paradigm (Experiment 2). The cognitive load of the processing components was manipulated to investigate its impact on concurrent maintenance for both within-domain and between-domain combinations of processing and storage components. In contrast to both domain- and process-based fractionations of visuo-spatial working memory, the results revealed that recall performance was determined by the cognitive load induced by the processing of items, rather than by the domain to which those items pertained. These findings are interpreted as evidence for a time-based resource-sharing mechanism in visuo-spatial working memory. (Contains 3 tables, 8 figures, and 3 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10