How does enactment affect the ability to follow instructions in working memory?

Allen, Richard J.; Waterman, Amanda H.

doi:10.3758/s13421-014-0481-3

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“…Indeed, while visual tracking and imagined enactment were the most frequently reported encoding-based strategies for both verbal and enactment recall types, the forms of representation emphasized by these strategies may be more suitable for enacted recall. However, a purely output-based enactment advantage is unlikely; this effect appears to be substantially reduced when participants physically enact during encoding (Allen & Waterman, 2015), and recall success has been found to depend heavily on expected rather than actual mode of report (Koriat et al, 1990). Nevertheless, exploring interactions between encoding and retrieval, and the forms of representation involved, would be a useful focus for future research.…”

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“…One possibility is that anticipated enactment leads to the creation of a motoric-based representation during encoding that better supports later recall. Such an account has previously been proposed to capture encoding-based enactment (or Subject-Performed Task) effects in measures of long-term memory (e.g., Engelkamp & Zimmer, 1989;Freeman & Ellis, 2003;Nyberg et al, 2001;Saltz & Donnenwerth-Nolan, 1981), and may also apply to the recent observation that this manipulation boosts verbal more than enacted recall in a working memory context (Allen & Waterman, 2015). Thus, anticipation and mental simulation of intended physical enactment may have a motoric component equivalent to that produced by actual enactment, and with similar benefits to working memory performance.…”

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Examining the role of working memory resources in following spoken instructions

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Gathercole

2015

Journal of Cognitive Psychology

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Examining the role of working memory resources in following spoken instructions

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Gathercole

2015

Journal of Cognitive Psychology

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“…The final article, by Allen and Waterman (2015), also addresses serial order, but focuses on the relatively underresearched task of remembering instruction sequences, and how different aspects of working memory contribute to this important everyday task. Their results point to the role of a possible action-motoric component of working memory that supports memory for action sequences.…”

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Perspectives on working memory: introduction to the special issue

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Cowan

2015

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More than 40 years ago, Baddeley and Hitch (1974) published an article with a wealth of experimentation and theorization on working memory, the small amount of information held in mind and often used within cognitive processes such as language comprehension and production, reasoning, and problem solving. We honor this seminal accomplishment in the present special issue, and take this opportunity to provide an introduction to our perspectives on the origin of the theory of working memory, how it has affected our work, what may be coming in the near future, and how the research articles in the present issue contribute to several related themes within the clearly thriving field of working memory.

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“…The studies reviewed here predominantly focused on more automated behaviours at the neglect of controlled cognitive processes. We speculate that interventions relying on both are likely to produce greater benefit than focusing on a single process alone [43].…”

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A systematic examination of preoperative surgery warm-up routines

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Background: Recent evidence indicates that a preoperative warm-up is a potentially useful tool in facilitating performance. But what factors drive such improvements and how should a warm-up be implemented? Methods:In order to address these issues, we adopted a two-pronged approach: (i) we conducted a systematic review of the literature to identify existing studies utilizing preoperative simulation techniques; (ii) we performed task analysis to identify the constituent parts of effective warm-ups. We identified five randomised control trials, four randomised crossover trials and four case series. The majority of these studies reviewed surgical performance following preoperative simulation relative to performance without simulation.Results: Four studies reported outcome measures in real patients and the remainder reported simulated outcome measures. All but one of the studies found that preoperative simulation improves operative outcomes-but this improvement was not found across all measured parameters. Whilst the reviewed studies had a number of methodological issues, the global data indicate that preoperative simulation has substantial potential to improve surgical performance. Analysis of the task characteristics of successful interventions indicated that the majority of these studies employed warm-ups that focused on the visual motor elements of surgery. However, there was no theoretical or empirical basis to inform the design of the intervention in any of these studies. Conclusions:There is an urgent need for a more rigorous approach to the development of Ôwarm-upÕ routines if the potential value of preoperative simulation is to be understood and realised. We propose that such interventions need to be grounded in theory and empirical evidence on human motor performance.

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How does enactment affect the ability to follow instructions in working memory?

Cited by 42 publications

References 27 publications

Examining the role of working memory resources in following spoken instructions

Examining the role of working memory resources in following spoken instructions

Perspectives on working memory: introduction to the special issue

A systematic examination of preoperative surgery warm-up routines

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