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Berry, Ed D. J.; Allen, Richard J.; Mon-Williams, Mark; Waterman, Amanda H. – Cognitive Science, 2019
Research has shown that adults can engage in cognitive offloading, whereby internal processes are offloaded onto the environment to help task performance. Here, we investigate an application of this approach with children, in particular children with poor working memory. Participants were required to remember and recall sequences of colors by…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Children, Short Term Memory
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Loaiza, Vanessa M.; Halse, Sindre C. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2019
Previous work regarding a counterintuitive benefit of increasing distractors on episodic long-term memory (LTM) has suggested that retrieval of memoranda in working memory (WM) after attention has been distracted may confer benefits to episodic LTM. The current study investigated 2 conceptions of how this may occur: either as an attentional…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Long Term Memory, Performance Factors, Attention