Modulation of working memory updating: Does long-term memory lexical association matter?

Cognitive Processing
Caterina Artuso, Paola Palladino

Abstract

The aim of the present study was to investigate how working memory updating for verbal material is modulated by enduring properties of long-term memory. Two coexisting perspectives that account for the relation between long-term representation and short-term performance were addressed. First, evidence suggests that performance is more closely linked to lexical properties, that is, co-occurrences within the language. Conversely, other evidence suggests that performance is linked more to long-term representations which do not entail lexical/linguistic representations. Our aim was to investigate how these two kinds of long-term memory associations (i.e., lexical or nonlexical) modulate ongoing working memory activity. Therefore, we manipulated (between participants) the strength of the association in letters based on either frequency of co-occurrences (lexical) or contiguity along the sequence of the alphabet (nonlexical). Results showed a cost in working memory updating for strongly lexically associated stimuli only. Our findings advance knowledge of how lexical long-term memory associations between consonants affect working memory updating and, in turn, contribute to the study of factors which impact the updating process across ...Continue Reading

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Jun 1, 2019·PloS One·Caterina Artuso, Paola Palladino
Jan 19, 2018·The Journal of General Psychology·Paola Palladino, Caterina Artuso
Oct 20, 2017·Memory & Cognition·Caterina Artuso, Paola Palladino
Feb 20, 2021·Child Neuropsychology : a Journal on Normal and Abnormal Development in Childhood and Adolescence·Caterina ArtusoPaola Palladino

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