Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"temporary maintenance"”.
-
Functional dissociation between visual and spatial temporary maintenance
… use of dual-task interference methodology. Two temporary maintenance tasks that are putatively assumed to rely on visual and spatial memory resources respectively, i.e., retention of visual items (geometric forms or Chinese ideographs) and retention of spatial items (dot locations), were …
-
A Processing Approach to the Working Memory/Long-Term Memory Distinction: Evidence from a Levels-of-Processing Span Task
… tests involved intentional encoding and active maintenance of to-be-remembered words: Experiment 1), a levels-of-processing effect was not observed. However, for surprise recall of supraspan: 8-item) lists in Experiment 2, initial processing was not directed at temporary maintenance for …
-
Links between Short-Term Memory and Word Retrieval in Aphasia
… These processes aid in the access to and the temporary maintenance of linguistic elements needed to produce and comprehend language. One such process that has been a topic of recent research in aphasia is verbal short-term memory, or the temporary, limited-capacity storage mechanism through …
-
Inhibition, attentional control, and causes of forgetting in working memory: a formal approach
In many cognitive activities, the temporary maintenance and manipulation of mental objects is a necessary step in order to reach a cognitive goal. Working memory has been regarded as the process responsible for those cognitive activities. This thesis addresses the question: what limits …