Storing Verbal Information in Working Memory
PSPE
- Camos, Valérie ORCID Universite de Fribourg
- 2015
Published in:
- Current Directions in Psychological Science. - SAGE Publications. - 2015, vol. 24, no. 6, p. 440-445
English
Recent reexaminations of the storage of verbal information in working memory have distinguished two mechanisms of maintenance. While a language-based mechanism of rehearsal was long considered the specific means of maintaining verbal information in the short term, another attention-based mechanism of refreshing has been more recently described. New evidence has established that these two mechanisms are affected by different constraints inherent to their respective language-based and attentional natures, have different impacts on recall performance, and are sustained by distinct brain networks. Moreover, adults can use either one or the other mechanism based on strategic choice or instructions. This dissociation presents some similarities with a dichotomy put forward in the ’70s between mechanisms permitting short-term versus long-term maintenance, but many questions remain about the functioning of these mechanisms and their interplay.
- Faculty
- Faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines
- Department
- Département de Psychologie
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Psychology
- License
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Rights reserved
- Open access status
- green
- Identifiers
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- DOI 10.1177/0963721415606630
- ISSN 0963-7214
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/335044
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