@article{ref1,
title="The focus of attention in working memory: evidence from a word updating task",
journal="Memory",
year="2011",
author="Janczyk, Markus and Grabowski, Joachim",
volume="19",
number="2",
pages="211-225",
abstract="Three experiments examined the cognitive costs of item switching within working memory with a novel word updating task, thereby extending previous research to the field of linguistic stimuli and linguistic-graphemic updating operations. In Experiments 1 and 2 costs for switching between working memory items were evident on the word level, and they increased with an increasing word set size (Experiment 2). In contrast, a surprisingly similar switch effect on the level of letters was not affected by word set size (Experiment 2). Experiment 3 showed that this effect is not simply based on the need for re-orienting visual spatial attention. To account for the overall picture of results, a recursive model of attentional foci is proposed. Moreover, individual working memory span appears to be associated with the accuracy of item switching, but not with its speed.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0965-8211",
doi="10.1080/09658211.2010.546803",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2010.546803"
}