The effect of instructed refreshing on working memory: Is the memory boost a function of refreshing frequency or refreshing duration?
Refreshing is assumed to reactivate the contents of working memory in an attention-based way, resulting in a boost of the attended representations and hence improving their subsequent memory. Here, we examined whether the refreshing-induced memory boost is a constant or a gradual, time-dependent phe...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 53; no. 5; pp. 1510 - 1523 |
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