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Lewandowsky, Stephan; Geiger, Sonja M.; Morrell, Daniel B.; Oberauer, Klaus – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2010
We investigated the effects of the duration and type of to-be-articulated distractors during encoding of a verbal list into short-term memory (STM). Distractors and to-be-remembered items alternated during list presentation, as in the complex-span task that underlies much of working-memory research. According to an interference model of STM, known…
Descriptors: Intervals, Prediction, Short Term Memory, Shared Resources and Services
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Lewandowsky, Stephan; Oberauer, Klaus – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2009
What drives forgetting in working memory? Recent evidence suggests that in a complex-span task in which an irrelevant processing task alternates with presentation of the memoranda, recall declines when the time taken to complete the processing task is extended while holding the time for rehearsal in between processing steps constant (Portrat,…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Recall (Psychology), Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Psychology