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Propper, Ruth E.; Brunye, Tad T.; Christman, Stephen D.; Januszewskia, Ashley – Brain and Cognition, 2012
Based on their specialized processing abilities, the left and right hemispheres of the brain may not contribute equally to recall of general world knowledge. US college students recalled the verbal names and spatial locations of the 50 US states while sustaining leftward or rightward unilateral gaze, a procedure that selectively activates the…
Descriptors: College Students, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Memory, Specialization
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Ketelsen, Kirk; Welsh, Marilyn – Brain and Cognition, 2010
The current study was designed to examine the possible existence of two limited-capacity pools of central executive resources: one each for verbal and visuospatial processing. Ninety-one college students (M age = 19.0, SD = 2.2) were administered a verbal working memory task that involved updating numbers in 2-, 3-, and 4-load conditions. The task…
Descriptors: Mental Computation, Short Term Memory, Recall (Psychology), Arithmetic