The influence of story context on a working memory span task.
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove)
; 65(3): 488-500, 2012.
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ABSTRACT
The purpose of the present study was to examine factors that could influence whether recall performance in the reading span task (Daneman & Carpenter, 1980 ) would benefit from the contextual information from the sentences in the processing component of the task. More specifically, we investigated whether people would benefit from sentence sets that formed short stories or when the entire span task was one continuous story. Overall, there was a clear benefit for contextually related sentence sets (i.e., the story span tasks) compared to the traditional reading span task. However, the benefit was eliminated when the entire set formed one continuous story. These results support the recall reconstruction hypothesis for working memory (Towse, Cowan, Hitch, & Horton, 2008 ), which suggests that people may strategically use the content of the sentences from the processing component of the reading span task as memorial cues to reconstruct the target words of the storage component. However, this benefit is constrained to scenarios when the contextual cues are unique to a specific set.
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Assunto principal:
Leitura
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Rememoração Mental
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Formação de Conceito
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Memória de Curto Prazo
Limite:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove)
Ano de publicação:
2012
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Article