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Roelofs, Ardi; Piai, Vitoria; Schriefers, Herbert – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
E. Dhooge and R. J. Hartsuiker (2010) reported experiments showing that picture naming takes longer with low- than high-frequency distractor words, replicating M. Miozzo and A. Caramazza (2003). In addition, they showed that this distractor-frequency effect disappears when distractors are masked or preexposed. These findings were taken to refute…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Attention, Experiments, Semantics
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Sandrini, Marco; Rossini, Paolo Maria; Miniussi, Carlo – Neuropsychologia, 2008
The functional organization of working memory (WM) in the human prefrontal cortex remains unclear. The present study used repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) to clarify the role of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) both in the types of information (verbal vs. spatial), and the types of processes (maintenance vs.…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Attention, Short Term Memory, Brain