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Working memory components of the Corsi blocks task
Author(s) -
Vandierendonck André,
Kemps Eva,
Fastame Maria Chiara,
Szmalec Arnaud
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1348/000712604322779460
Subject(s) - recall , task (project management) , baddeley's model of working memory , psychology , context (archaeology) , working memory , interval (graph theory) , arithmetic , short term memory , context dependent memory , cognitive psychology , articulatory suppression , tapping , free recall , speech recognition , cognition , computer science , neuroscience , mathematics , management , combinatorics , biology , economics , paleontology
A computerized version of the Corsi blocks task (Milner, 1971) was assessed for standard forward‐recall order (Experiments 1 and 3) and for reversed‐recall order (Experiments 2 and 3) either in a single‐task or in a dual‐task design combined with articulatory suppression, matrix‐tapping, random‐interval generation or fixed‐interval generation as concurrent tasks during the encoding stage. Concurrent performance of the matrix‐tapping task impaired memory performance for short as well as for longer block sequences. The random‐interval generation task, which loads executive processes, impaired memory performance mainly at intermediate‐ and longer‐sequence lengths, while fixed‐interval generation, which is presumed to put no load on executive processing, did not show any effect. Articulatory suppression did not impair memory performance on forward‐recall order, but it impaired memory for longer sequences in the backward‐recall condition in Experiment 2, but not in Experiment 3. The results are discussed within the context of the working‐memory model of Baddeley and Hitch (1974).