Impact of processing demands at encoding, maintenance and retrieval in visual working memory.

ABSTRACT: There has been surprisingly little examination of how recall performance is affected by processing demands induced by retrieval cues, how manipulations at encoding interact with processing demands during maintenance or due to the retrieval cue, and how these are affected with aging. Here, we investigate these relationships by examining the fidelity of working memory recall across two delayed reproduction tasks with a continuous measure of report across the adult lifespan. Participants were asked to remember and subsequently reproduce from memory the identity and location of a probed item from the encoding display. In Experiment 1, we examined the effect of filtering irrelevant information at encoding and the impact of filtering distracting information at retrieval simultaneously. In Experi

SUBMITTER: Tabi YA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8346950 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature