EXPRESS: Impact of concurrent temporal but not spatial processing on working memory for serial order.

IF 1.5 3区心理学 Q4 PHYSIOLOGY

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Pub Date : 2025-05-18 DOI:10.1177/17470218251346745

Lucie Attout, Robin Remouchamps, Steve Majerus

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Abstract

Serial order is an essential but still poorly understood component of verbal working memory (WM). This study examined the role of spatial vs. temporal codes for the representation of serial order information by presenting spatial or temporal secondary tasks during the completion of a verbal WM task. The secondary tasks were dot detection tasks designed to impact spatial processing (the dots appeared in random vs. left-to-right spatial order) or temporal processing (the dots appeared in regular vs. irregular temporal order). In two experiments, we observed an exclusive, interfering impact of the temporal secondary task on serial order WM while evidence for the null was observed for the impact of the spatial secondary task. These data provide support for an intervention of temporal processes in the encoding of serial order information in WM. Furthermore, the effect of temporal interference was not limited to WM for serial order information, but also disrupted WM for item information. These findings highlight the role of temporal processes in encoding both item and serial order information in WM, possibly by allowing binding of the two types of information.

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EXPRESS：并发时间处理而非空间处理对串行顺序工作记忆的影响。

序列顺序是言语工作记忆（WM）的一个重要组成部分，但人们对其了解甚少。本研究通过在口头WM任务完成过程中呈现空间或时间次要任务，考察了空间和时间编码在序列顺序信息表征中的作用。次要任务是点检测任务，旨在影响空间处理（点以随机或从左到右的空间顺序出现）或时间处理（点以规则或不规则的时间顺序出现）。在两个实验中，我们观察到时间次要任务对序列顺序WM的排他干扰影响，而空间次要任务对序列顺序WM的影响为零。这些数据为WM中时序信息编码中时序过程的介入提供了支持。此外，时间干扰的影响不仅限于序列订单信息的WM，而且还破坏了项目信息的WM。这些发现强调了时间过程在编码WM中的项目和序列顺序信息中的作用，可能是通过允许两种信息的绑定。

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Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 医学-生理学

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3.50

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5.90%

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178

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3-8 weeks

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