Frequency judgments for distractor items in a short-term memory task: Instructional variation and adult age differences

30 elderly subjects were matched with 30 young subjects and tested on a kinesthetic short-term memory task which required the replication of criterion moves after a variable retention interval under conditions of either rest, differing interpolated movement tasks, or mental activity. A visual control condition was used. Differing interference and temporal decrements were observed. Both old and young subjects differed significantly between sighted and blindfold conditions; however, there was no difference between the performance of the old and the young in the blindfold (kinesthetic) condition. These findings were discussed with respect to practical implications for the retraining of old subjects on certain motor tasks.

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False memories in a short-term memory task: The effects of backward associative strength and item identifiability

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e512592013-528 ◽

2011 ◽

Author(s):

P. Albuquerque ◽

C. Miranda

Keyword(s):

Associative Strength ◽

Short Term Memory ◽

Memory Task ◽

False Memories ◽

Short Term ◽

Term Memory ◽

Backward Associative Strength

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Effects of the number of objects and locations on attentional allocation and processing in a visual short-term memory task.

10.35841/psychology-cognition.1.1.40-56 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 01 (01) ◽

Author(s):

Aymen Ben Abbes ◽

Yousri Marzouki ◽

Thierry Ripoll

Keyword(s):

Short Term Memory ◽

Memory Task ◽

Short Term ◽

Attentional Allocation ◽

Term Memory ◽

Visual Short Term Memory

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Brain hemodynamic response in Examiner–Examinee dyads during spatial short-term memory task: an fNIRS study

Experimental Brain Research ◽

10.1007/s00221-021-06073-0 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Francesco Panico ◽

Stefania De Marco ◽

Laura Sagliano ◽

Francesca D’Olimpio ◽

Dario Grossi ◽

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Keyword(s):

Working Memory ◽

Cognitive Processes ◽

Short Term Memory ◽

Spatial Working Memory ◽

Brain Activity ◽

Memory Task ◽

Neural Correlates ◽

Short Term ◽

Term Memory ◽

The Real

AbstractThe Corsi Block-Tapping test (CBT) is a measure of spatial working memory (WM) in clinical practice, requiring an examinee to reproduce sequences of cubes tapped by an examiner. CBT implies complementary behaviors in the examiners and the examinees, as they have to attend a precise turn taking. Previous studies demonstrated that the Prefrontal Cortex (PFC) is activated during CBT, but scarce evidence is available on the neural correlates of CBT in the real setting. We assessed PFC activity in dyads of examiner–examinee participants while completing the real version of CBT, during conditions of increasing and exceeding workload. This procedure allowed to investigate whether brain activity in the dyads is coordinated. Results in the examinees showed that PFC activity was higher when the workload approached or reached participants’ spatial WM span, and lower during workload conditions that were largely below or above their span. Interestingly, findings in the examiners paralleled the ones in the examinees, as examiners’ brain activity increased and decreased in a similar way as the examinees’ one. In the examiners, higher left-hemisphere activity was observed suggesting the likely activation of non-spatial WM processes. Data support a bell-shaped relationship between cognitive load and brain activity, and provide original insights on the cognitive processes activated in the examiner during CBT.

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