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Individuals with low working memory spans show greater interference from irrelevant information because of poor source monitoring, not greater activation.

Although individuals with high and low working memory (WM) span appear to differ in the extent to which irrelevant information interferes with their performance on WM tasks, the locus of this interference is not clear. The present study investigated whether, when performing a WM task, high- and low-...

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Published in:Memory & Cognition Vol. 43; no. 3; pp. 357 - 367
Main Authors: Lilienthal, Lindsey, Rose, Nathan, Tamez, Elaine, Myerson, Joel, Hale, Sandra
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Apr2015
Subjects:
Attention
Cognition
Decision making
Task performance
Memory disorders
Probability theory
Regression analysis
Research funding
Short-term memory
Descriptive statistics
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