Working memory: the past, the present, and the future of a theoretical constructAbstract. Working memory provides a theoretical framework for the analysis of maintenance of information in the context of subsequent cognitive processes and associated ...
On the interaction of verbal short-term memory and language processing: evidence from cognitive neuropsychologyAbstract. The present review summarizes patient studies which are relevant for models of verbal short-term memory. Cognitive single case ...
Abstract. Single-neuron studies performed in the primate prefrontal cortex (PFC) revealed that retaining information in working memory (WM) is associated with sustained firing during the delay period in a match-to-sample task. On the other ...
Abstract. Recent findings are reviewed indicating that upper alpha oscillations - when analyzed with appropriate time/frequency resolution - show a similar physiological reactivity as theta in working memory tasks. Comparable to theta, a load dependent ...
In the present study musicians and normal control subjects performed an S1-S2 pitch comparison task, which included the presentation of intervening tones during the retention interval. The time for encoding and storing the pitch of S1 was varied between ...
More than a century of research shows that increasing the gap between study episodes using the same material can enhance retention, yet little is known about how this so-called distributed practice effect unfolds over nontrivial periods. In two three-...
Abstract. The actions associated with objects are thought to be automatically activated when processing object names. Recent studies, however, have failed to find evidence for a role of the motor system in long-term ...
Abstract. The grounded cognition approach posits the involvement of sensory-motor processes in the representation of knowledge. However, the functional impact of these processes on cognition has been questioned, and ...
Individual differences in working memory have been related to interactions between working memory and long-term memory (LTM). The present study examined this interaction in children with and without language impairment. We used two listening span tasks ...