Time to process information in working memory improves episodic memory

Souza, Alessandra S.; Oberauer, Klaus

doi:10.1016/j.jml.2017.07.002

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“…Although the results are consistent with the retrieval account, they could also be interpreted as consistent with a recent alternative account suggesting that prolonging the time that memoranda are processed in WM facilitates their retrieval from episodic LTM (Jarjat et al, in press;Souza & Oberauer, 2017b). Thus, it is time, rather than the distractors per se, that improves long-term retention.…”

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“…Accordingly, we predicted that final free recall should be relatively constant across serial position rather than negatively sloped as has been previously shown using a complex span format where the memoranda were alternated with the distractors (Loaiza & McCabe, 2012;McCabe, 2008). to process information in WM, rather than refreshing or retrieval per se, underlies the advantage of the distractors for episodic LTM (i.e., the total time account; Jarjat et al, in press;Souza & Oberauer, 2017b). Thus, Experiment 3 was conducted to further address this possibility alongside the refreshing and retrieval accounts tested in Experiments 1 -2.…”

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“…It should be noted that in previous studies we had only considered unconditionalized performance (e.g., Loaiza & McCabe, 2012;McCabe, 2008). Nevertheless, given the importance of ensuring that a mere testing effect could not explain the pattern of results (e.g., a list length effect in final recall due to an increased likelihood of initially recalling smaller LIST LENGTH AND DISTRACTORS 12 than larger list lengths), we included this measure as other researchers have done (e.g., Loaiza & Borovanska, 2018;Rose et al, 2014;Souza & Oberauer, 2017b).…”

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Where working memory meets long-term memory: The interplay of list length and distractors on memory performance.

Loaiza¹,

Halse²

2019

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cogni

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Previous work regarding a counterintuitive benefit of increasing distractors on episodic long-term memory (LTM) has suggested that retrieval of memoranda in working memory (WM) after attention has been distracted may confer benefits to episodic LTM. The current study investigated 2 conceptions of how this may occur: either as an attentional refreshing of active memoranda within the focus of attention or as retrieval of a cohesive chunk of memoranda from outside the central component of WM. Given the literature suggesting that increasing the number of items to maintain in WM, or list length, incurs an attentional cost, the current study investigated whether increasing list length may reduce the beneficial impact of distractors on episodic LTM. In a series of three experiments, we manipulated list length and the number of distractors following the memoranda in a Brown-Peterson-like-span task. Despite profound negative effects of list length and distractors on initial recall, the results indicated that list length did not interact with the beneficial effect of distractors on final free recall of the items. Furthermore, final free recall was consistent across serial position, in line with the view that all of the memoranda are retrieved as a chunk after each distractor. These findings emphasize the notion that recovering inactive information from outside of the central component of WM may impact its long-term retention. The theoretical implications regarding how retrieval may be a means by which LTM processes influence WM are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record

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2019

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Port Safety Assessment based on Entropy Weight Matter-Element model

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2017

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Frequently port safety accidents have resulted in port safety problems becoming the focus of increasing attention. Port safety assessment is an important basis in preventing port safety accidents. Owing to complicated influencing factors of port safety, assessing port safety effectively has been a key research topic in the industry and academe. To determine port safety assessment indexes reasonably and acquire practical assessment results, the port safety assessment index system based on 5M (man, machine, material, management, and milieu) was established first. Then, weights of all assessment indexes were determined by the entropy weight method, and the port safety assessment model was constructed by matterelement theory. Finally, the assessment model was verified by ports in Zhejiang Province of China. Results demonstrate that the material factor presents the highest average weight among all evaluation indexes. The accident rate of goods and qualified rate of pollution control are two indexes with the highest weights. The port safety assessment results based on the entropy weight matter-element model conform to practical situations. Thus, the port safety assessment model based on entropy weight matter-element theory can measure port safety level effectively and evaluate its feasibility in practical cases. The model offsets shortcomings of single theory assessment and provides a new idea and decision-making method for port safety assessment.

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“…Although eye movements are critical to gathering current visuospatial information required for the optimal functioning of attentional processes that guide working memory (Beck & Hollingworth, 2017;Pearson & Sahraie, 2003;Shipstead, Harrison, & Engle, 2012), short-term working memory interacts further with long-term episodic memory such that previous experiences provide context to salient stimuli (Baddeley & Hitch, 1974;Eriksson, Vogel, Lansner, Bergström, & Nyberg, 2015;Souza & Oberauer, 2017;Uncapher & Wagner, 2009). Taken together, these findings suggest that salient visuospatial sensory information, guided, in part, by oculomotion, informs perspective on the relevance of incoming sensory input.…”

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Overlapping frontoparietal networks in response to oculomotion and traumatic autobiographical memory retrieval: implications for eye movement desensitization and reprocessing

Harricharan

McKinnon

Tursich

et al. 2019

European Journal of Psychotraumatology

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Background: Oculomotor movements have been shown to aid in the retrieval of episodic memories, serving as sensory cues that engage frontoparietal brain regions to reconstruct visuospatial details of a memory. Frontoparietal brain regions not only are involved in oculomotion, but also mediate, in part, the retrieval of autobiographical episodic memories and assist in emotion regulation. Objective: We sought to investigate how oculomotion influences retrieval of traumatic memories by examining patterns of frontoparietal brain activation during autobiographical memory retrieval in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and in healthy controls. Method: Thirty-nine participants (controls, n = 19; PTSD, n = 20) recollected both neutral and traumatic/stressful autobiographical memories while cued simultaneously by horizontal and vertical oculomotor stimuli. The frontal (FEF) and supplementary (SEF) eye fields were used as seed regions for psychophysiological interaction analyses in SPM12. Results: As compared to controls, upon retrieval of a traumatic/stressful memory while also performing simultaneous horizontal eye movements, PTSD showed: i) increased SEF and FEF connectivity with the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, ii) increased SEF connectivity with the right dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, and iii) increased SEF connectivity with the right anterior insula. By contrast, as compared to PTSD, upon retrieval of a traumatic/stressful memory while also performing simultaneous horizontal eye movements, controls showed: i) increased FEF connectivity with the right posterior insula and ii) increased SEF connectivity with the precuneus. Conclusions: These findings provide a neurobiological account for how oculomotion may influence the frontoparietal cortical representation of traumatic memories. Implications for eye movement desensitization and reprocessing are discussed.

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Time to process information in working memory improves episodic memory

Cited by 69 publications

References 38 publications

Where working memory meets long-term memory: The interplay of list length and distractors on memory performance.

Where working memory meets long-term memory: The interplay of list length and distractors on memory performance.

Port Safety Assessment based on Entropy Weight Matter-Element model

Overlapping frontoparietal networks in response to oculomotion and traumatic autobiographical memory retrieval: implications for eye movement desensitization and reprocessing

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