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Kessler, Yoav; Oberauer, Klaus – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2014
Updating and maintenance of information are 2 conflicting demands on working memory (WM). We examined the time required to update WM (updating latency) as a function of the sequence of updated and not-updated items within a list. Participants held a list of items in WM and updated a variable subset of them in each trial. Four experiments that vary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Short Term Memory, Undergraduate Students, Reaction Time
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Katzir, Maayan; Eyal, Tal; Meiran, Nachshon; Kessler, Yoav – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2010
"Inhibitory control" is a cognitive mechanism that contributes to successful self-control (i.e., adherence to a long-term goal in the face of an interfering short-term goal). This research explored the effect of imagined positive emotional events on inhibition. The authors proposed that the influence of imagined emotions on inhibition…
Descriptors: Inhibition, Psychological Patterns, Experiments, Experimental Psychology