1. Boosting maintenance in working memory with temporal regularities
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Yohana Lévêque, Gaën Plancher, Lison Fanuel, Barbara Tillmann, Gaëlle Piquandet, Laboratoire d'Etude des Mécanismes Cognitifs (EMC), Université Lumière - Lyon 2 (UL2), Laboratoire Parole et Langage (LPL), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Etude de l'Apprentissage et du Développement [Dijon] (LEAD), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Bourgogne (UB), Centre de recherche en neurosciences de Lyon - Lyon Neuroscience Research Center (CRNL), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), and Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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Adult ,Male ,Linguistics and Language ,Time Factors ,Articulatory suppression ,Short-term memory ,Experimental and Cognitive Psychology ,Serial Learning ,050105 experimental psychology ,Language and Linguistics ,Young Adult ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Rhythm ,Encoding (memory) ,Humans ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS ,Recall ,Music psychology ,Working memory ,05 social sciences ,Cognition ,Memory, Short-Term ,Pattern Recognition, Visual ,Mental Recall ,[SCCO.PSYC]Cognitive science/Psychology ,Female ,Psychology ,Psychomotor Performance ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Cognitive psychology - Abstract
Music cognition research has provided evidence for the benefit of temporally regular structures guiding attention over time. The present study investigated whether maintenance in working memory can benefit from an isochronous rhythm. Participants were asked to remember series of 6 letters for serial recall. In the rhythm condition of Experiment 1A, a wood block sound was presented 6 times with a regular stimulus-onset-asynchrony during the delay between encoding and recall. In the silent condition, no sound was presented. The presence of the regular rhythm resulted in improved memory performance (Experiment 1A.), an effect also observed under articulatory suppression (Experiment 2), suggesting that temporal regularities can enhance maintenance in working memory including attentional refreshing. Experiment 1B confirmed this interpretation by showing that the presentation of a nonisochronous rhythm did not result in improved memory performance in comparison to a silent condition. The findings are discussed in relation to current working memory models and the theoretical framework of dynamic attending. (PsycINFO Database Record
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- 2018