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  • Human Memory

Background:

  • The nature of working memory (WM) storage is debated: a central, capacity-limited system versus domain-specific stores.
  • Previous studies on dual-task interference in WM are confounded by factors like task preparation and cognitive strategies.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate dual-task costs in working memory by minimizing confounding interference sources.
  • To determine if concurrent visuospatial and auditory object WM tasks interfere when their representational formats are distinct.

Main Methods:

  • Assessed dual-task costs for visuospatial and auditory object WM tasks concurrently.
  • Minimized potential interference from task preparation, coordination, and cognitive strategies.
  • Introduced a common representational format (spatial information) to evaluate its impact on dual-task performance.

Main Results:

  • Visuospatial and auditory object WM tasks showed independent performance, even at high loads.
  • Dual-task performance degraded only when tasks shared a common representational format (spatial information).

Conclusions:

  • Results challenge the domain-independent storage model of working memory.
  • Findings support a model of working memory comprising multiple domain-specific stores and central executive processes.
  • WM can maintain distinct representations across modalities unless they share a common functional domain, like spatial information.