Back to Search
Start Over
Spatial Attention Interacts With Serial-Order Retrieval From Verbal Working Memory.
- Source :
-
Psychological Science (0956-7976) . Sep2013, Vol. 24 Issue 9, p1854-1859. 6p. - Publication Year :
- 2013
-
Abstract
- The ability to maintain the serial order of events is recognized as a major function of working memory. Although general models of working memory postulate a close link between working memory and attention, such a link has so far not been proposed specifically for serial-order working memory. The present study provided the first empirical demonstration of a direct link between serial order in verbal working memory and spatial selective attention. We show that the retrieval of later items of a sequence stored in working memory—compared with that of earlier items—produces covert attentional shifts toward the right. This observation suggests the conceptually surprising notion that serial-order working memory, even for nonspatially defined verbal items, draws on spatial attention. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09567976
- Volume :
- 24
- Issue :
- 9
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Psychological Science (0956-7976)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 90247864
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797613479610