PSYC 3265 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Executive Functions, Meta-Analysis, Stroop Effect
28 Sep 2017
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D"esposito and colleagues performed a meta-analysis to investigate content-based. Meta-analysis quantitative review of findings from several studies. One might expect based on the content account of working memory that the. A systematic review of previously published studies and process-based accounts of working memory phonological loop might be left lateralized and the spatial sketchpad should be right lateralized as it is for perception. To investigate this possibility d"esposito categorized studies based on their content (spatial, non spatial) Results partially support the hypothesis that spatial tasks tend to be associated with activation of the right prefrontal cortex, whereas non spatial tasks are associated with activation of the left prefrontal cortex, but not. Analysed neuroimaging studies to see where the primary st is. However, there was bilateral activation in many studies. Active focus for spatial and non spatial tasks. Non spatial tasks tend to be on the left hemisphere have to manipulate information) as requiring maintenance or maintenance plus (maintenance + manipulation)
