Working Memory Is as Working Memory Does: A Pluralist Take on the Center of the Mind.

IF 3.2 2区 心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL
Javier Gomez-Lavin
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Abstract

Working memory is thought to be the psychological capacity that enables us to maintain or manipulate information no longer in our environment for goal-directed action. Recent work argues that working memory is not a so-called natural kind and in turn cannot explain the cognitive processes attributed to it. This paper first clarifies the scope of this earlier critique and argues for a pluralist account of working memory. Under this account, working memory is variously realized by many mechanisms that contribute to the maintenance and manipulation of information across tasks. This view in effect updates one of the earliest pluralist formulations of working memory. Juxtaposing this view against deflationary descriptions allows us to delineate two gradients that help us chart various accounts of working memory and identify their respective theoretical commitments. In turn, we can isolate those accounts that fail to accord with the evidence supporting a pluralist view, and we can begin to rehabilitate working memory as a pluralist, and ultimately more informative, construct.

工作记忆就是工作记忆:关于思维中心的多元主义观点》(Working Memory Is as Working Memory Does: A Pluralist Take on the Center of the Mind.
工作记忆被认为是一种心理能力,它使我们能够保持或处理环境中不再存在的信息,从而采取有目标的行动。最近的研究认为,工作记忆并不是所谓的自然种类,因此无法解释归因于工作记忆的认知过程。本文首先澄清了这一早期批评的范围,并论证了工作记忆的多元论。根据这一观点,工作记忆是由多种机制实现的,这些机制有助于在不同任务中维护和处理信息。这一观点实际上更新了工作记忆最早的多元论表述之一。将这一观点与通货紧缩的描述并列起来,我们可以划分出两个梯度,帮助我们勾勒出工作记忆的各种描述,并确定它们各自的理论承诺。反过来,我们可以分离出那些不符合支持多元论观点的证据的描述,并开始将工作记忆恢复为一种多元论的、最终更具信息性的建构。
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