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https://hdl.handle.net/2115/84202

Commonalities of visual and auditory working memory in a spatial-updating task

英語

Location memory

2021-02-22

Springer

Memory & cognition

49(6)

1172-1187

Although visual and auditory inputs are initially processed in separate perception systems, studies have built on the idea that to maintain spatial information these modalities share a component of working memory. The present study used working memory navigation tasks to examine functional similarities and dissimilarities in the performance of updating tasks. Participants mentally updated the spatial location of a target in a virtual array in response to sequential pictorial and sonant directional cues before identifying the target's final location. We predicted that if working memory representations are modality-specific, mixed-modality cues would demonstrate a cost of modality switching relative to unimodal cues. The results indicate that updating performance using visual unimodal cues positively correlated with that using auditory unimodal cues. Task performance using unimodal cues was comparable to that using mixed modality cues. The results of a subsequent experiment involving updating of target traces were consistent with those of the preceding experiments and support the view of modality-nonspecific memory.

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This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Memory & cognition. The final authenticated version is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13421-021-01151-8.

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