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Background:

  • Working memory (WM) updating involves controlled selection and substitution of information.
  • Automatic updating, distinct from WM updating, influences task performance through sequential effects.
  • The relationship between WM updating and the P3 event-related potential component requires clarification.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To dissociate WM updating from automatic updating.
  • To characterize the nature and responsible memory systems for each updating type.
  • To investigate the link between WM updating and the P3 event-related potential.

Main Methods:

  • Experiment 1 compared sequential processes in 1-back and 2-alternative forced choice tasks.
  • Experiments 2-3 utilized a novel 'reference-back' task to decompose the 1-back task.
  • Behavioral and event-related potential (ERP) data were collected.

Main Results:

  • Differential sources of sequential processes were identified between tasks.
  • Automatic updating appears to operate on long-term memory representations, separate from WM.
  • ERP results did not support P3 being triggered by WM updating; behavioral evidence for a WM/long-term memory gating mechanism was found.

Conclusions:

  • WM updating and automatic updating are dissociable processes.
  • Automatic updating influences performance via long-term memory, distinct from WM.
  • A gating mechanism separates working memory from long-term memory.