Further Evidence for Temporal Decay in Working Memory: Reply to Lewandowsky and Oberauer (2009)

Autor/inn/en	Barrouillet, Pierre; Portrat, Sophie; Vergauwe, Evie; Diependaele, Kevin; Camos, Valerie
Titel	Further Evidence for Temporal Decay in Working Memory: Reply to Lewandowsky and Oberauer (2009)
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 37 (2011) 5, S.1302-1317 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0278-7393
DOI	10.1037/a0022933
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Evidence; Models; Short Term Memory; Prediction; Data Analysis; Task Analysis; Time Factors (Learning); Theories; Undergraduate Students; Universities; Experimental Psychology + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Evidenz; Analogiemodell; Kurzzeitgedächtnis; Vorhersage; Auswertung; Aufgabenanalyse; Theory; Theorie; University; Universität; Experimentelle Psychologie
Abstract	The sources of forgetting in working memory (WM) are a matter of intense debate: Is there a time-related decay of memory traces, or is forgetting uniquely due to representation-based interference? In a previous study, we claimed to have provided evidence supporting the temporal decay hypothesis (S. Portrat, P. Barrouillet, & V. Camos, 2008). However, reanalyzing our data, S. Lewandowsky and K. Oberauer (2009) demonstrated that they do not provide compelling evidence for temporal decay and suggested a class of alternative models favoring a representation-based interference account. In this article, we develop from the most recent proposals made by Lewandowsky and Oberauer 2 of the most plausible extensions of these alternative models. We show that neither of these extensions can account for recent findings related to between-domain WM performance and that both lead to predictions that are contradicted by new empirical evidence. Finally, we show that recent studies that have been claimed to rule out the temporal decay hypothesis do not resist close scrutiny. We conclude that the time-based resource-sharing model remains the most parsimonious way to account for forgetting and restoration of memory traces in WM. (Contains 1 table, 5 figures and 4 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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