Translating words into actions in working memory: The role of spatial-motoric coding.

ABSTRACT: Research from a working memory perspective on the encoding and temporary maintenance of sequential instructions has established a consistent advantage for enacted over verbal recall. This is thought to reflect action planning for anticipated movements at the response phase. We describe five experiments investigating this, comparing verbal and enacted recall of a series of action-object pairings under different potentially disruptive concurrent task conditions, all requiring repetitive movements. A general advantage for enacted recall was observed across experiments, together with a tendency for concurrent action to impair sequence memory performance. The enacted recall advantage was reduced by concurrent action for both fine and gross concurrent movement with the degree of disruption influ

SUBMITTER: Li G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9424718 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature