Can activated long-term memory maintain serial order information?

Kowialiewski, Benjamin; Lemaire, Benoı̂t; Majerus, Steve; Portrat, Sophie

doi:10.3758/s13423-021-01902-3

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“…This does not imply that the proposed primacy gradient is not an important part of order representation; indeed, the order retrieval mechanism included in the RFM has an implicit primacy gradient as the first item is selected first, unless it has perturbed, followed by the second item, etc. However, the proposal that this primacy gradient is the result of activation and co-activation between the items was not supported by the findings reported here (see also, Kowialiewski et al, 2021).…”

Section: Discussioncontrasting

confidence: 94%

“…The findings of Experiments 2 and 3 were unequivocal in supporting a similarity-based view. As such, current results are in line with recent work by Kowialiewski et al (2021) who tested a connectionist model of short-term memory for order that included co-activation and a primacy gradient as in ANet. They concluded that an activation-based order mechanism could not account for the interaction between LTM factors and short-term order memory.…”

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confidence: 90%

“…Other models include semantic levels of representation also (e.g., Acheson et al, 2011;Buchsbaum & D'Esposito, 2008;Cowan, 1999;Cowan & Chen, 2009;Gupta, 2009;LaRocque et al, 2014;Majerus, 2009;Martin, 2006;Martin & Gupta, 2004). However, there remains much debate and uncertainty as to the manner in which LTM and STM are integrated (e.g., Cowan, 2019;Kowialiewski, et al 2021;Norris, 2017Norris, , 2019.…”

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Modeling verbal short-term memory: A walk around the neighborhood.

Saint‐Aubin

Poirier

Yearsley

et al. 2023

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cogni

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When remembering over the short-term, long-term knowledge has a large effect on the number of correctly recalled items and little impact on memory for order. This is true, for example, when the effects of semantic category are examined. Contrary to what these findings suggest, Poirier et al. in 2015 proposed that memory for order relies on the level of activation within long-term networks. Importantly, although their view has been criticized, they showed that manipulating semantic associations led to item migrations that were atypical. In this article, we show that similar migrations can be obtained with another knowledge-based factor: orthographic neighborhood. In three experiments, we manipulated the orthographic neighborhood of to-berecalled items. The latter is a sublexical factor; as such, it is much less likely than semantic relatedness to involve demand characteristics or grouping strategies. The first experiment established that the neighborhood manipulation produced the pattern of item migrations previously observed with semantic relatedness, confirming that the migration effect can generalize to other variables. The last two experiments suggested that migrations were due to the features shared across list items rather than to item co-activation (as in Poirier et al.). The results were successfully modeled by calling upon the Revised Feature Model, where recall depends on selecting a retrieval candidate based on the features of the cueing information. Overall, our findings underline the usefulness of a model where retrieval is determined by relative distinctiveness and underline that multiple mechanisms can lead to order errors in recall.

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Modeling verbal short-term memory: A walk around the neighborhood.

Saint‐Aubin

Poirier

Yearsley

et al. 2023

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cogni

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“…Going back to SOB-CS, this model assumes that serial-recall performance is determined by bindings between items and their positions within a study list. The idea of position cues that encode the place of a particular item within a study list is common in conceptual work on WM (Burgess & Hitch, 1999; Kowialiewski et al, 2021; Oberauer, Lewandowsky, et al, 2012). However, modeling of LTM often substitutes position cues for context cues—the overall contents of the mind that accompany the presentation of an item and which include details about the environment and also thoughts elicited by processing the item itself (Howard & Kahana, 2002).…”

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Elaboration by superposition: From interference in working memory to encoding in long-term memory.

Piątkowski¹,

Bastian²,

Zawadzka³

et al. 2023

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cogni

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Distraction embedded in working memory tasks leads to impaired performance. This impairment is mitigated when targets and distractors that follow them share common features-a signature effect of interference by superposition. Here we propose that target-distractor similarity modulates not only forgetting from working memory but also encoding into long-term memory. In five experiments, we test this elaboration-by-superposition hypothesis, demonstrating that semantic relatedness between targets and distractors benefits delayed category-cued recall performance (Experiments 1a and 1b), which is not due to carry-over effects from working memory testing (Experiment 2). Just as in the case of working memory, this long-term memory effect is reduced when distractors precede targets (Experiment 3). Finally, we show that while high target-distractor similarity reduces forgetting from working memory, it produces net benefits for long-term memory performance (Experiment 4). Together, the results suggest that common mechanisms underlie encoding into working and long-term memory, and that bindings between features of spatiotemporal context and features of to-be-remembered items play a crucial role.

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“…If WM has a distributed nature, future studies using a multifocal TMS paradigm which applies TMS over two or more regions simultaneously are needed to test this claim (Hartwigsen et al, 2010 ). Also, future work using computational modeling approaches (e.g., Kowialiewski et al, 2021 ; Lemaire et al, 2021 ) should investigate the nature and functional properties of a phonological WM buffer.…”

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Phonological Working Memory Representations in the Left Inferior Parietal Lobe in the Face of Distraction and Neural Stimulation

Yue

Martin

2022

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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The neural basis of phonological working memory (WM) was investigated through an examination of the effects of irrelevant speech distractors and disruptive neural stimulation from transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). Embedded processes models argue that the same regions involved in speech perception are used to support phonological WM whereas buffer models assume that a region separate from speech perception regions is used to support WM. Thus, according to the embedded processes approach but not the buffer approach, irrelevant speech and TMS to the speech perception region should disrupt the decoding of phonological WM representations. According to the buffer account, decoding of WM items should be possible in the buffer region despite distraction and should be disrupted with TMS to this region. Experiment 1 used fMRI and representational similarity analyses (RSA) with a delayed recognition memory paradigm using nonword stimuli. Results showed that decoding of memory items in the speech perception regions (superior temporal gyrus, STG) was possible in the absence of distractors. However, the decoding evidence in the left STG was susceptible to interference from distractors presented during the delay period whereas decoding in the proposed buffer region (supramarginal gyrus, SMG) persisted. Experiment 2 examined the causal roles of the speech processing region and the buffer region in phonological WM performance using TMS. TMS to the SMG during the early delay period caused a disruption in recognition performance for the memory nonwords, whereas stimulations at the STG and an occipital control region did not affect WM performance. Taken together, results from the two experiments are consistent with predictions of a buffer model of phonological WM, pointing to a critical role of the left SMG in maintaining phonological representations.

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Can activated long-term memory maintain serial order information?

Cited by 8 publications

References 58 publications

Modeling verbal short-term memory: A walk around the neighborhood.

Modeling verbal short-term memory: A walk around the neighborhood.

Elaboration by superposition: From interference in working memory to encoding in long-term memory.

Phonological Working Memory Representations in the Left Inferior Parietal Lobe in the Face of Distraction and Neural Stimulation

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