Working memory effects in speeded RSVP tasks
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Gil-Gómez de Liaño, Beatriz
Rodríguez, Carmen
Potter, Mary C
Date Issued
February 2013
Journal
Psychological Research
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Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Gil-Gómez de Liaño, Beatriz, Mary C. Potter, and Carmen Rodríguez. “Working Memory Effects in Speeded RSVP Tasks.” Psychological Research 78.1 (2014): 124–135.
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Abstract
The present paper examines the effects of memory contents and memory load in rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) speeded tasks, trying to explain previous inconsistent results. We used a one target (Experiment 1) and a two-target (Experiment 2) RSVP task with a concurrent memory load of one or four items, in a dual-task paradigm. A relation between material in working memory and the target in the RSVP impaired the identification of the target. In Experiments 3 and 4, the single task was to determine whether any information in memory matched the target in the RSVP, while varying the memory load. A match was detected faster than a non-match, although only when there was some distance between targets in the RSVP (Experiment 4). The results suggest that memory contents automatically capture attention, slowing processing when the memory contents are irrelevant to the task, and speeding processing when they are relevant.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-013-0479-7
