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  • Psychology

Background:

  • Working memory (WM) maintains item identity and serial order through distinct capacities.
  • Verbal serial order WM is modulated by spatial processing, evidenced by the Spatial Position Association of Response Codes (SPoARC) effect.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Investigate individual differences in the modulation of verbal serial order WM by spatial processing.
  • Explore the behavioral and neurobiological underpinnings of the SPoARC effect.

Main Methods:

  • Administered seven behavioral tasks to 160 healthy adults.
  • Collected resting-state fMRI data from 25 participants.
  • Utilized multilevel mixed-effects modeling and graph-theory-based analysis.

Main Results:

  • SPoARC effect magnitude predicts individual differences in verbal serial order WM capacity.
  • SPoARC effect magnitude is related to spatial item WM capacity.
  • Cortical region interaction (modularity) and spatial attention network modularity predict SPoARC effect magnitude.

Conclusions:

  • Individual differences in verbal serial order WM are influenced by spatial processing.
  • The interplay between verbal serial order WM, spatial WM, and spatial attention is crucial for the SPoARC effect.
  • Neurobiological network interactions underlie the modulation of verbal serial order WM by spatial factors.