Université de Fribourg

Does long-term memory affect refreshing in verbal working memory?

Camos, Valerie ; Mora, Gérôme ; Oftinger, Anne-Laure ; Mariz Elsig, Stéphanie ; Schneider, Philippe ; Vergauwe, Evie

In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 2019, vol. 45, no. 9, p. 1664-1682

Attentional refreshing allows the maintenance of information in working memory and has received growing interest in recent years. However, it is still ill-defined and several proposals have been put forward to account for its functioning. Among them, some proposals suggest that refreshing relies on the retrieval of knowledge from semantic long-term memory. To examine such a proposal, the present...