Short- and long-term memory tasks predict working memory performance, and vice versa.
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Short- and long-term memory tasks predict working memory performance, and vice versa.
Neath, Ian. Department of Psychology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Canada, ineath@mun.ca Saint-Aubin, Jean. École de psychologie, Université de Moncton, Canada Bireta, Tamra J.. Department of Psychology, The College of New Jersey, NJ, US Gabel, Andrew J.. Department of Psychology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada Hudson, Chelsea G.. Department of Psychology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada Surprenant, Aimée M.. Department of Psychology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Neath, Ian, Department of Psychology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, A1B 3X9, ineath@mun.ca
Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, Vol 73(2), Jun, 2019. pp. 79-93.
Can J Exp Psychol
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Canadian Journal of Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie
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memory, Brown– Peterson, working memory, complex span, continual distractor
The Brown–Peterson, operation span, and continual distractor tasks all require people to retain information while performing a distractor task. Scale Independent Memory, Perception, and Learning (SIMPLE), a local relative distinctiveness model, has been fit to aspects of each task and offers the same explanation for
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each: the distractor task serves to space the items out in time and memory performance depends on the relative distinctiveness of the target item at the time of recall. If this is correct, it follows that performance on all three tasks should correlate, even though the tasks have, at various times, been ascribed to different memory systems, short-term memory, working memory, and long-term memory, respectively. We tested 190 subjects on all three tasks and found that performance on all three tasks is significantly correlated. We then fit the data from each task using SIMPLE. We argue that these results support the relative distinctiveness principle (Surprenant & Neath, 2009). We contrast SIMPLE with other models of the same tasks. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)
Les tâches de Brown-Peterson, d’empan d’opération (OSPAN) et de distraction en continu requièrent toutes que nous retenions des informations en effectuant une tâche distractrice. Le modèle SIMPLE (mémoire, perception et apprentissage indépendants de l’échelle), un modèle du caractère distinctif relatif local, a été adapté aux aspects de chaque tâche et offre la même explication pour chacun : la tâche distractrice sert à espacer les items dans le temps et le rendement en termes de mémoire varie selon le caractère distinctif relatif de l’item cible au moment du rappel. Si cela est exact, il s’ensuit que le rendement des trois tâches corresponde, même si les tâches ont, à diverses reprises, été attribuées à différents systèmes de mémoire, la mémoire à court terme, la mémoire de travail et la mémoire à long terme, respectivement. Nous avons testé 190 sujets par rapport aux trois tâches et constaté que le rendement lors des trois tâches était étroitement lié. Nous avons ensuite adapté les données issues de chaque tâche au moyen du modèle SIMPLE. Nous prétendons que ces résultats confirment le principe du caractère distinctif relatif (Surprenant & Neath, 2009). Nous comparons le modèle SIMPLE avec d’autres modèles pour les mêmes tâches. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)
Public Significance Statement—Human memory has often been described as consisting of multiple stages such as short-term, working, and long-term memory. We argue that this leads researchers to ignore commonalities among different tasks and focus, instead, on their differences. The current study shows commonalities among three tasks that have been interpreted as tapping different memory systems, thus supporting the idea that general principles of memory can apply in some cases. Ultimately, our data provide a challenge to system theorists to develop a model that offers an in-depth account of a wide range of phenomena. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)
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*Long Term Memory; *Recall (Learning); *Short Term Memory; *Time Perception; Learning; Memory; Performance; Prediction; Task Complexity
Learning & Memory (2343)
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Human Male Female
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Adolescence (13-17 yrs) Adulthood (18 yrs & older) Young Adulthood (18-29 yrs) Thirties (30-39 yrs) Middle Age (40-64 yrs)
Continual Distractor Task Operation Span Task
Sponsor: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Recipients: Neath, Ian; Saint-Aubin, Jean; Surprenant, Aimée M.
International Conference on Memory, Jul, 2016, Budapest, Hungary
Part of this work was presented at the aforementioned conference.
Empirical Study; Quantitative Study
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First Posted: Dec 17, 2018; Accepted: Aug 27, 2018; First Submitted: Jun 20, 2018
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Canadian Psychological Association. 2018
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http://0-dx.doi.org.wizard.umd.umich.edu/10.1037/cep0000157
Short- and Long-Term Memory Tasks Predict Working Memory Performance, and Vice Versa
By: Ian Neath Department of Psychology, Memorial University of Newfoundland; Jean Saint-Aubin École de psychologie, Université de Moncton Tamra J. Bireta Department of Psychology, The College of New Jersey Andrew J. Gabel Department of Psychology, Memorial University of Newfoundland Chelsea G. Hudson Department of Psychology, Memorial University of Newfoundland Aimée M. Surprenant Department of Psychology, Memorial University of Newfoundland Acknowledgement: This work was supported, in part, by grants from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada to Ian Neath, Jean Saint-Aubin, and Aimée M. Surprenant. Part of this research formed part of an honours thesis of Chelsea G. Hudson. Part of this work was presented at the sixth International Conference on Memory, Budapest, Hungary, July 2016.
The ancient Greek poet Archilochus wrote that “a fox knows many things, but a hedgehog one important thing,” an idea that has since become closely associated with the philosopher Isaiah Berlin. Greene (2007) applied this idea to the study of memory, noting that at various times memory researchers were more like hedgehogs, in that they sought general principles that applied widely, whereas at others that were more like foxes, in that they examined a myriad of disparate and seemingly unrelated effects. Within the recent past, the foxes have outnumbered the hedgehogs, as indicated by the number of researchers who have argued that general principles of memory do not exist (e.g., Baddeley, 1978; Roediger, 2008; Tulving, 1985), although hedgehogs are not entirely extinct (see, e.g., Surprenant & Neath, 2009). In this article, we examine the extent to which one of the principles proposed by Surprenant and Neath, the relative distinctiveness principle, can explain three different tasks—Brown–Peterson, operation span, and continual distractor—each of which was originally developed to tap a different memory system.
There are a number of reasons why the three tasks might all be fundamentally related (Neath,
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