Camos, Valérie Jubin, Jonathan Belletier, Clément 2025 Recent studies showed that the presence of the experimenter hinders executive functions. Belletier and Camos (2018) extended these findings to working memory, reporting a detrimental effect of the experimenter presence only when participants performed an aloud concurrent articulation during maintenance. Under such a condition, participants likely relied on an attentional maintenance mechanism rather that an articulatory mechanism, supporting the account of a capture of attention by the social presence. However, other results using the Stroop Task demonstrate an improvement on executive functions (Garcia-Marques & Fernandes, 2024, for a meta- analysis). Thus, the present study aimed at reassessing the impact of experimenter’s presence reported by Belletier and Camos (2018) on a larger sample, with a within- subject manipulation of concurrent articulation, a variation in the secondary task, and the addition of another type of concurrent articulation. In the present study, participants alone or in the presence of the experimenter performed a Brown-Peterson task in which they maintained letters during a 12-second interval, during which they either stayed silent, uttered aloud, or whispered non-sense syllables. They had also to perform either no secondary task, a parity or a location judgement task. Results confirmed Belletier and Camos’ (2018) findings, showing that the experimenter presence hindered memory performance when participants performed a secondary task under any type of concurrent articulation. A silent context or the absence of secondary task preserved recall from the effect of experimenter’s presence. application/pdf https://folia.unifr.ch/global/documents/334846 https://folia.unifr.ch/documents/334846/files/camosetal2025.pdf eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.5334/joc.461 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/issn/2514-4820 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess CC BY Journal of Cognition. - Ubiquity Press, Ltd.. - 2025, vol. 8, no. 1, p. 1-9 Working Memory Experimenter Presence Attentional Maintenance Concurrent Articulation Does the Experimenter Presence Affect Verbal Working Memory? http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501