Allen, RJ, Havelka, J, Falcon, T et al. (2 more authors) (2014) Modality specificity and integration in working memory: Insights from visuospatial bootstrapping. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. ISSN 1939-1285
Abstract
The question of how meaningful associations between verbal and spatial information might be utilized to facilitate working memory performance is potentially highly instructive for models of memory function. The present study explored how separable processing capacities within specialized domains might each contribute to this, by examining the disruptive impacts of simple verbal and spatial concurrent tasks on young adults’ recall of visually presented digit sequences encountered either in a single location or within a meaningful spatial “keypad” configuration. The previously observed advantage for recall in the latter condition (the “visuospatial bootstrapping effect”) consistently emerged across 3 experiments, indicating use of familiar spatial information in boosting verbal memory. The magnitude of this effect interacted with concurrent activity; articulatory suppression during encoding disrupted recall to a greater extent when digits were presented in single locations (Experiment 1), while spatial tapping during encoding had a larger impact on the keypad condition and abolished the visuospatial bootstrapping advantage (Experiment 2). When spatial tapping was performed during recall (Experiment 3), no task by display interaction was observed. Outcomes are discussed within the context of the multicomponent model of working memory, with a particular emphasis on cross-domain storage in the episodic buffer (Baddeley, 2000).
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | (c) 2014, American Psychological Association. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. This article may not exactly replicate the final version published in the APA journal. It is not the copy of record. |
Keywords: | working memory; binding; bootstrapping; episodic buffer |
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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: | 11 Dec 2014 11:30 |
Last Modified: | 17 Jan 2018 04:15 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000058 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | American Psychological Association |
Identification Number: | 10.1037/xlm0000058 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:81571 |