TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2011//
TI  - The focus of attention in working memory: evidence from a word updating task
JO  - Memory
A1  - Janczyk, Markus
A1  - Grabowski, Joachim
SP  - 211
EP  - 225
VL  - 19
IS  - 2
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0965-8211
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2010.546803
ID  - ref1
ER  -