Exploring the effects of demonstration and enactment in facilitating recall of instructions in working memory.

ABSTRACT: Across the lifespan the ability to follow instructions is essential for the successful completion of a multitude of daily activities. This ability will often rely on the storage and processing of information in working memory, and previous research in this domain has found that self-enactment at encoding or observing other-enactment at encoding (demonstration) improves performance at recall. However, no working memory research has directly compared these manipulations. Experiment 1 explored the effects of both self-enactment and demonstration on young adults' (N=48) recall of action-object instruction sequences (e.g. 'spin the circle, tap the square'). Both manipulations improved recall, with demonstration providing relatively larger boosts to performance across conditions. More detailed a

SUBMITTER: Allen RJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7186251 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature