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Showing 1 to 20 of 865 for “"working memory"”.
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The Role of Working Memory Resources in Mind Wandering: The Difference Between Working Memory Capacity and Working Memory Load
… is no consensus on the relationship between working memory resources and mind wandering. The purpose of the current study is to investigate whether mind wandering requires working memory resources to be sustained. The resource-demanding view is that mind wandering requires working memory …
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Defining Affective Working Memory
Some recent studies of working memory have led to the proposal of a new WM maintenance component specialized for maintaining emotions. The crux of the evidence for affective WM is the finding of differential selective interference effects on the maintenance of negative emotions compared to the …
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Working memory for spatial relations
… areas of study in cognition, the capacity of working memory (WM) is widely agreed to be roughly 3-5 items: 3-5 objects (i.e., bound collections of object features) in the literature on visual WM, or 3-5 role bindings (i.e., objects in specific relational roles) in the literature on memory and …
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How does practice affect working memory? : The efficacy of adaptive-difficulty working memory training programs
Working memory refers to a mental ’workbench’ whereby new or goal relevant information is held in a readily accessible state in order to achieve success with cognitive problems. Working memory has been shown to be relevant to individual differences in many aspect of cognition including fluid …
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Updating of representations in working memory
The limited capacity of working memory forces people to update its contents continuously. Two aspects of the updating process were investigated in the present experimental series. The first series concerned the question if it is possible to update several representations in parallel. Similar …
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Authentication Schemes' Impact on Working Memory
… task information must be actively maintained in working memory. As a result, primary task information stored in working memory is at risk of being lost or corrupted while users authenticate. For over two decades, researchers have focused on developing more memorable passwords by replacing …
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Limitations of Human Visual Working Memory
… study investigates limitations of human visual working memory (VWM). The experiments of the present work involve the experimental paradigm of change detection using simple geometrical objects in the form of rectangles of different colour, length, and orientation. It can be shown, that a limited …
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Structured representations in visual working memory
… has attempted to quantify the capacity of visual working memory by focusing on how many individual objects or visual features can be actively maintained in memory. This thesis presents a novel theoretical framework for understanding working memory capacity, suggesting that our memory …
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Mindfulness and working memory capacity: two comprehensive meta-analyses examining working memory as a mechanism of mindfulness
… mechanism explaining how mindfulness works is working memory capacity (WMC). The aim of this project was to examine the potential mechanistic relationship between mindfulness and WMC by conducting two related meta-analyses, one examining the correlation (r) between trait/dispositional …
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Adverse childhood experiences, working memory, and stress
… among adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), working memory as assessed by an n-back task, and stress. Working memory task demands were manipulated by varying the cognitive load (1-back/3-back) and time limit (standard-paced/time-restricted), and stress was measured both subjectively via …
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Working memory and food-related decision making
… another executive function to eating behaviour, working memory, has been less well-studied. The aim of this thesis was to assess the role of working memory in food-related decision making in healthy volunteers and patients with type 2 diabetes. The results of Study 1 (Chapter 3) suggest that …
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The Nature of Working Memory in Aphasia
… executive function, and short-term and working memory. This has led to two premises: (a) the domain-specific hypothesis, in which aphasia is associated with additional cognitive deficits only to the extent that these are dependent upon language; and (b) the domain-general hypothesis, in …
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Working Memory Effects on Bilingual Sentence Processing
… Korean/English bilingual group showed effects of working memory capacity (WMC) in the interpretive and post-interpretive stages of processing, providing support for the Single Resource model (Just & Carpenter, 1992). The monolingual English and monolingual Korean low-span groups showed evidence of …
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Phonological Working Memory Deficits in ADHD Revisited: The Role of Lower-Level Information Processing Deficits in Impaired Working Memory Performance
Working memory deficits in children with ADHD are well established; however, insufficient evidence exists concerning the degree to which lower-level cognitive processes contribute to these deficits. The current study dissociates lower level information processing abilities (i.e., visual …
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Working Memory Processes in the Encoding of Intentions
… primary interest of this investigation concerned working memory functioning and cue/act discrimination during encoding of intentions. The study included manipulations of working memory and intention load to investigate the encoding processes related to prospective memory (PM). Three experiments …
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Statistically learned visual representations support visual working memory
… “chunking” concepts used by the VSL and visual working memory (VWM) literatures, I seek evidence that memory representations formed by VSL could support subsequent VWM performance, by employing the same regularities between tasks. In a series of experiments, I examined the extent to which …
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Warning Compliance: Effects Of Stress And Working Memory
… It was also intended to determine what role working memory played in the mode of warning presentation that resulted in the highest retention and subsequent compliance. An all within participant design was created in order to determine if scores on working memory span tasks predicted …
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Working memory and prediction in human sentence parsing
This dissertation investigates the working memory mechanism subserving human sentence processing and its relative contribution to processing difficulty as compared to syntactic prediction. Within the last decades, evidence for a content-addressable memory system underlying human cognition in …
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