The involvement of working memory during retrieval from episodic memory.
While the role of attention via WM during free recall has been well established in the dual-task literature, the potential role of storage-based aspects of WM in episodic retrieval has yet to be explored, particularly outside the context of individual differences. We enforced a storage-based WM load...
| Published in: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 54; no. 3; pp. 883 - 898 |
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Apr2026
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