Concurrent Task Effects on Memory Retrieval
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-2003
Keywords
Stimulus Onset Asynchrony, Free Recall, Memory Retrieval, Divided Attention, Concurrent Task
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03196472
Abstract
Previous studies combining continuous free recall with a concurrent task have generally shown that concurrent tasks impose fairly negligible effects on memory retrieval. By contrast, dual-task studies employing either cued recall or semantic retrieval reveal gross memory impairment and suggest that retrieval is delayed by the centrally demanding phase of the concurrent tasks (i.e., response selection). To explore this conflict, subjects performed continuous free recall while carrying out a serial-choice#x2014; response time (RT) task, as in the previous free recall studies. Unlike these previous studies, however, the choice#x2014;RT task utilized arbitrary stimulus#x2014;response mappings in order to increase the proportion of time devoted to the centrally demanding response selection phase. Recall total was reduced significantly, and recall latency was slowed substantially.
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Citation / Publisher Attribution
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, v. 10, issue 1, p. 96-103
Scholar Commons Citation
Rohrer, Doug and Pashler, Harold, "Concurrent Task Effects on Memory Retrieval" (2003). Psychology Faculty Publications. 1775.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/psy_facpub/1775
