How Does Working Memory Enable Number-Induced Spatial Biases?

How Does Working Memory Enable Number-Induced Spatial Biases?

Number-space associations are a robust observation, but their underlying mechanisms remain debated. Two major accounts have been identified. First, spatial codes may constitute an intrinsic part of number representations stored in the brain - a perspective most commonly referred to as the Mental Number Line account. Second, spatial codes may be generated at the level of working memory when numb...

How does processing 1 Running Head : PROCESSING IN WORKING MEMORY

Three studies are presented that examine why the processing demands within working memory tasks lead to forgetting of the memoranda. In each, separate groups of adult participants were asked to carry out either verbal or nonverbal operations on exactly the same processing materials, while maintaining verbal storage items. The imposition of verbal processing tended to produce greater forgetting,...

How Does Hippocampus Contribute to Working Memory Processing?

The hippocampus was traditionally viewed as an area supporting declarative long-term memory (LTM). However, an increasing amount of evidence points beyond the LTM hypothesis showing that the hippocampus is involved during processing of relational memory (Eichenbaum, 2004) or spatial and spatiotemporal discontiguity (Staresina and Davachi, 2009). It has been also repeatedly found to get recruite...

Visuo-spatial Working Memory

Verbal makes it positive, spatial makes it negative: working memory biases judgments, attention, and moods.

Prior research has suggested that emotion and working memory domains are integrated, such that positive affect enhances verbal working memory, whereas negative affect enhances spatial working memory (Gray, 2004; Storbeck, 2012). Simon (1967) postulated that one feature of emotion and cognition integration would be reciprocal connectedness (i.e., emotion influences cognition and cognition influe...