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Order Information in Verbal Working Memory Shifts the Subjective Midpoint in Both the Line Bisection and the Landmark Tasks
- Source :
- Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70 (10, Antoine, S, Ranzini, M, Gebuis, T, van Dijck, J P & Gevers, W 2017, ' Order information in verbal working memory shifts the subjective midpoint in both the line bisection and the landmark tasks ', The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol. 70, no. 10, pp. 1973-1983 . https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2016.1217246, The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70(10), 1973-1983. Psychology Press Ltd
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2017.
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Abstract
- A largely substantiated view in the domain of working memory is that the maintenance of serial order is achieved by generating associations of each item with an independent representation of its position, so-called position markers. Recent studies reported that the ordinal position of an item in verbal working memory interacts with spatial processing. This suggests that position markers might be spatial in nature. However, these interactions were so far observed in tasks implying a clear binary categorization of space (i.e., with left and right responses or targets). Such binary categorizations leave room for alternative interpretations, such as congruency between non-spatial categorical codes for ordinal position (e.g., begin and end) and spatial categorical codes for response (e.g., left and right). Here we discard this interpretation by providing evidence that this interaction can also be observed in a task that draws upon a continuous processing of space, the line bisection task. Specifically, bisections are modulated by ordinal position in verbal working memory, with lines bisected more towards the right after retrieving items from the end compared to the beginning of the memorized sequence. This supports the idea that position markers are intrinsically spatial in nature.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Left and right
Adolescent
Physiology
Ordinal information processing
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Space (commercial competition)
050105 experimental psychology
Task (project management)
Association
Young Adult
03 medical and health sciences
Spatial Processing
0302 clinical medicine
Bisection tasks
Position (vector)
Physiology (medical)
Humans
Attention
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Categorical variable
General Psychology
Analysis of Variance
Communication
Landmark
business.industry
Working memory
05 social sciences
Neurosciences cognitives
Spatial attention
General Medicine
Verbal Learning
Memory, Short-Term
Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
Categorization
Space Perception
Female
business
Psychology
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Cognitive psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 17470226 and 17470218
- Volume :
- 70
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....ec8b47869d08f3af7c06b31c894aedb5
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2016.1217246