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Background:

  • Working memory (WM) is influenced by multisensory stimulus congruency.
  • The effect of multisensory congruency on concrete versus abstract words in WM retrieval is not well understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how multisensory congruency of concrete and abstract words affects working memory retrieval.
  • To determine if abstract words are less susceptible to visual interference in auditory working memory tasks.

Main Methods:

  • A 2-back task was employed to assess working memory.
  • Attention was manipulated towards different matching conditions of visual and auditory word characteristics.
  • Response times for concrete and abstract words were compared under various multisensory congruency conditions.

Main Results:

  • Under auditory retrieval, abstract words were processed faster than concrete words in incongruent conditions, suggesting less visual interference.
  • Under visual retrieval, incongruent concrete words showed faster WM retrieval than congruent ones, indicating potential visual interference from auditory concrete words.
  • Concrete words in multisensory settings may be over-encoded visually, hindering WM retrieval.

Conclusions:

  • Abstract words demonstrate superior working memory performance in multisensory conditions compared to concrete words.
  • Concrete words' aggressive visual encoding in multisensory environments can impede working memory retrieval.
  • Findings suggest distinct processing mechanisms for concrete and abstract words in multisensory working memory.