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A Central Capacity Limit to the Simultaneous Storage of Visual and Auditory Arrays in Working Memory
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Direct linkSaults, J. Scott; Cowan, Nelson – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2007
If working memory is limited by central capacity (e.g., the focus of attention; N. Cowan, 2001), then storage limits for information in a single modality should apply also to the simultaneous storage of information from different modalities. The authors investigated this by combining a visual-array comparison task with a novel auditory-array…
Descriptors: Memory, Cognitive Processes, Auditory Stimuli, Visual Stimuli
