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Benjamin Peters1, Benjamin Rahm2, Stefan Czoschke3

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Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition
|September 22, 2017
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Participants can recall multiple items from working memory (WM) sequentially. Recall precision drops sharply after the first item due to executive interference, not item decay.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Working memory (WM) typically involves encoding and retaining multiple items.
  • However, studies often probe only one item, limiting understanding of multi-item recall.
  • This gap highlights the need to investigate how multiple items are reported from WM.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the precision and report order effects of multiple items recalled from visual working memory.
  • To determine the underlying mechanisms influencing recall precision across sequential reports.

Main Methods:

  • Participants encoded and successively recalled orientations of up to 8 Gabor patches.
  • Recall order was externally cued, with continuous orientation reproduction.
  • Three experiments replicated findings, controlling for potential confounds like retro-cueing and delay duration.

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Main Results:

  • Participants recalled multiple items with above-chance precision, even at high set sizes.
  • Recall precision decreased significantly from the first to the second report, then gradually.
  • This precision drop was better explained by a discontinuous function, suggesting distinct WM states.
  • Executive interference from the first report, not visual interference or decay, impacted subsequent reports.

Conclusions:

  • Sequential whole-report procedures reveal distinct states within visual working memory.
  • Executive interference plays a crucial role in modulating recall precision for sequentially reported items.
  • Findings challenge simple decay models and support theories involving distinct representational states in WM.