The effect of instructed refreshing on working memory: Is the memory boost a function of refreshing frequency or refreshing duration?

ABSTRACT: Refreshing is assumed to reactivate the contents of working memory in an attention-based way, resulting in a boost of the attended representations and hence improving their subsequent memory. Here, we examined whether the refreshing-induced memory boost is a constant or a gradual, time-dependent phenomenon. If the beneficial effect of refreshing on memory performance is due to the information being selected for refreshing (i.e., selection hypothesis), a constant memory boost is expected to occur each time an item is selected for refreshing, with better memory performance for items that are selected more often. If, however, the beneficial effect of refreshing on memory performance is due to spending time in the focus of attention during refreshing (i.e., duration hypothesis), a gradual memo

SUBMITTER: Vergauwe E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12307513 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature