Darling, S, Allen, RJ orcid.org/0000-0002-1887-3016 and Havelka, J (2017) Visuospatial Bootstrapping: When Visuospatial and Verbal Memory Work Together. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 26 (1). pp. 3-9. ISSN 0963-7214
Abstract
Visuospatial Bootstrapping is the name given to a phenomenon whereby performance on visually presented verbal serial recall tasks is better when stimuli are presented in a spatial array rather than a single location. However, the display used has to be a familiar one. This phenomenon implies communication between cognitive systems involved in storing short- term memory for verbal and visual information, alongside connections to and from knowledge held in long-term memory. Bootstrapping is a robust, replicable phenomenon that requires to be incorporated in theories of working memory and of how working memory interacts with long-term memory. This article provides an overview of bootstrapping, contextualises it within research on links between long-term knowledge and short-term memory, and addresses how it can help inform current working memory theory.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2017. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Current Directions in Psychological Science. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | working memory; episodic buffer; long-term memory; short-term memory |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Medicine and Health (Leeds) > School of Psychology (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 06 Sep 2016 11:01 |
Last Modified: | 18 Apr 2017 08:12 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721416665342 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Association for Psychological Science |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/0963721416665342 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:104307 |