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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Working memory (WM) relies on maintaining and updating information.
  • Input-gating mechanisms control information entry into WM.
  • Self-relevance may influence cognitive processes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if self-relevant stimuli differentially affect WM maintenance, updating, and gating.
  • To examine the impact of self-associated versus stranger-associated stimuli on WM component processes.

Main Methods:

  • Participants learned shape-label associations (self vs. stranger).
  • The reference-back paradigm was used to assess WM updating, gate opening, and gate closing.
  • Target stimuli were shapes previously linked to self or stranger.

Main Results:

  • A repetition benefit was observed for gate opening trials.
  • This benefit was not consistently modulated by self-relevance across two studies.
  • No significant differential impact of self-relevance on WM components was found.

Conclusions:

  • The self-relevance of stimuli does not appear to modulate core working memory processes like updating or gating.
  • Further research may explore factors like continuous reinstatement and task-specific associations.