PSYC 2501 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Mental Rotation, Perseveration, Object Permanence
13 Mar 2018
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It determines how attention is focused on a specific task, how it" s divided between two tasks, and how it is switched between tasks. Suggests that this part of working memory and attention are essentially the same mechanisms. If the capacity of stm is 5-9 items, then there shouldn"t be any difference between remembering the lists: the word length effect occurs because it takes longer to pronounce the second set in the phonological loop, articulatory suppression. Interference of memory performance by speaking while being presented with another phonological task. Harder to remember a list of words like breast, bronze, golf, inn, limp, dirt, when saying "the, the, the" over and over again. Single cell recordings in the prefrontal cortex: monkey looked at fixation point. After the square disappears and after some delay, monkey moves its eyes to where square had been. Firing of a neuron in prefrontal cortex that responded to the square.
