Commonalities and differences in the working memory components underlying letter and category fluency tasks: A dual-task investigation.

Rende, Barbara; Ramsberger, Gail; Miyake, Akira

doi:10.1037/0894-4105.16.3.309

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“…Thus, only the candidate three-factor correlated model seems to provide an adequate fit to the data. However, after an examination of the residuals, a working memory  letter fluency link was added to this model in view of a potential increment in fit and, even more importantly, considering that the letter-fluency tasks is known to require working memory resources (e.g., Rende, Ramsberger & Miyake, 2000).…”

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The Multifold Relationship Between Memory and Decision Making: An individual-differences study

Missier¹,

Bruin²,

Nilsson³

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Several judgment and decision-making tasks are assumed to involve memory functions, but significant knowledge gaps on the memory processes underlying these tasks remain. In a study on 568 adults between 25 to 80 years, hypotheses were tested on the specific relationships between individual differences in working memory, episodic memory, and semantic memory, respectively, and six main components of decision-making competence. In line with the hypotheses, working memory was positively related with the more cognitively-demanding tasks (Resistance to Framing, Applying Decision Rules, and Under/Overconfidence), whereas episodic memory was positively associated with a more experience-based judgment task (Recognizing Social Norms). Furthermore, semantic memory was positively related with two more knowledge-based decision-making tasks (Consistency in Risk Perception and Resistance to Sunk Costs). Finally, the age-related decline observed in some of the decision-making tasks was (partially or totally) mediated by the age-related decline in working memory or episodic memory. These findings are discussed in relation to the functional roles fulfilled by different memory processes in judgment and decision-making tasks.Keywords: Judgment and decision making; Decision-making competence; Working memory; Episodic memory; Semantic memory; Cognitive aging; Individual differences. MEMORY AND DECISION MAKING 3The Multifold Relationship Between Memory and Decision Making: An Individual-differences Study Among the more promising research developments in the field of judgment and decision making is the attempt to ground judgment and decision-making processes in findings and models derived from memory research, tracing complex cognitive tasks back to their basic cognitive roots to improve the understanding of how individuals perform these tasks. Indeed, memory can play an important role in several aspects of judgment and decision-making tasks (for reviews see, e.g., Alba, Hutchinson & Lynch, 1991;Dougherty, Gronlund & Gettys, 2003;Tomlinson, Marewski & Dougherty, 2011;Weber, Goldstein & Barlas, 1995), and the age-related decline observed in some aspects of memory functioning (Park, 2000;Park et al., 1996Park et al., , 2002Salthouse, 2004) can mediate part of the age-related changes in decision-making abilities. However, the investigation of the role of memory functions in decision making has been scattered and nonsystematic, leaving various knowledge gaps about which memory functions underly specific decision-making tasks open. The study presented in this paper aims to fill some of these gaps through a systematic analysis of the relationships between individual differences in memory processes and individual differences in various aspects of decision-making competence, guided by a functional view of memory processes in decision making.In the next section, the theoretical background of the research will be presented, followed by the specific hypotheses of the study, which refer to the contribution of different memory processes to ...

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The Multifold Relationship Between Memory and Decision Making: An individual-differences study

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Nilsson³

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“…The choice RT task effects were also considered separately for the letter fluency and the category fluency tasks. According to Rende et al (2002), if response selection is mediated by a subsidiary component of WM, the choice RT task should differentially affect letter and category fluency performance. However, we observed that the decrement in fluency performance due to the concurrent choice reaction task was similar for the different variants of the fluency task.…”

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“…First, if response selection involves executive control, a concurrent choice reaction task should have a more disruptive effect on a task that requires many executive resources (i.e., verbal fluency) than does concurrent simple reaction. The second prediction refers to the processing differences between letter and category fluency, as reported by Rende et al (2002). If response selection is not mediated by verbal or spatial processing, the choice RT task is predicted not to differentially affect letter and category fluency.…”

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“…Although verbal fluency was initially considered to be a relatively pure measure of frontal or executive functioning (e.g., Denckla, 1994), Rende et al (2002) demonstrated that verbal and visuospatial processes also contribute to letter and category fluency, albeit in a different way. More precisely, the phonological loop seems to contribute to letter fluency, whereas the VSSP plays a similar role in category fluency.…”

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“…Thus, despite the fact that those verbal and visuospatial span tasks are useful to dissociate executive from domain-specific processing, which was the main purpose of Experiments 1 and 2, a more demanding measure of executive control is needed to evidence the specifically executive demands of response selection more directly. Therefore, in Experiment 3, a well-established neuropsychological measure with high executive demands was used-namely, verbal fluency (e.g., Phillips, 1997;Rende, Ramsberger, & Miyake, 2002).…”

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In the present study, we investigated whether response selection involves executive control, using the selective interference paradigm within Baddeley's (1986) working memory framework. The interference from response selection was estimated by comparing the patterns of dual-task interference of simple and choice RT tasks with those of a number of established working memory tasks. In Experiment 1, we compared impairment of forward and backward verbal serial recall from the RT tasks and articulatory suppression. Experiment 2 measured the adverse effects of the RT tasks and matrix tapping on forward and backward visuospatial serial recall. Finally, in Experiment 3, we examined the impairment from the RT tasks with two measures of executive control-namely, letter and category fluency. Altogether, the three experiments demonstrated that response selection interferes with executive control and that the interference is not produced at the level of working memory's slave systems, which supports the assumption of executive involvement in response selection.

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Verbal Fluency Tasks and the Neuropsychology of Language

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2012

The Handbook of the Neuropsychology of Language

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Commonalities and differences in the working memory components underlying letter and category fluency tasks: A dual-task investigation.

Cited by 157 publications

References 43 publications

The Multifold Relationship Between Memory and Decision Making: An individual-differences study

The Multifold Relationship Between Memory and Decision Making: An individual-differences study

Response selection involves executive control: Evidence from the selective interference paradigm

Verbal Fluency Tasks and the Neuropsychology of Language

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