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Working Memory Updating Latency Reflects the Cost of Switching between Maintenance and Updating Modes of Operation
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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…
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