ArticleQuarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006)2022
Translating words into actions in working memory: The role of spatial-motoric coding.
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- Motor working memory.Trends in cognitive sciences · 2026Review
- The multicomponent model of working memory fifty years on.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2025Article
- Working memory prioritisation effects in tactile immediate serial recall.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2024Article
- Hanging on the telephone: Maintaining visuospatial bootstrapping over time in working memory.Memory & cognition · 2024Article
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Abstract
Research from a working memory perspective on the encoding and temporary maintenance of sequential instructions has established a consistent advantage for enacted over verbal recall. This is thought to reflect action planning for anticipated movements at the response phase. We describe five experiments investigating this, comparing verbal and enacted recall of a series of action-object pairings under different potentially disruptive concurrent task conditions, all requiring repetitive movements. A general advantage for enacted recall was observed across experiments, together with a tendency for concurrent action to impair sequence memory performance. The enacted recall advantage was reduced by concurrent action for both fine and gross concurrent movement with the degree of disruption influenced by both the complexity and the familiarity of the movement. The results are discussed in terms of an output buffer store of limited capacity capable of holding motoric plans for anticipated action.
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