Removal of Information from Working Memory is Not Related to Inhibition : Poster presented at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Virtual Psychonomics. USA.
- Alodie Rey-Mermet ORCID UniDistance Suisse
- Krishneil A. Singh (Contributor) University of Western Australia
- Gilles E. Gignac (Contributor) ORCID University of Western Australia
- Christopher R. Brydges (Contributor) ORCID University of California, Davis
- Ullrich K. H. Ecker (Contributor) ORCID University of Western Australia
- 2020
English
Working memory (WM) – a system for maintaining and accessing a limited number of goal-relevant representations – is assumed to require cognitive processes to control interference caused by irrelevant information. Recent research has proposed two conceptually similar interference-control processes performing this housekeeping function: (1) an active, item-wise removal process that removes no-longer relevant information from WM, and (2) an executive inhibitory process that suppresses the activation of distractors against competing, goal-relevant representations. The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which removal and inhibition represent the same cognitive construct. A structural equation modeling approach identified a reliable latent variable of removal. However, no latent variable of inhibition could be established. Critically, the individual measures of inhibition were unrelated to the removal latent variable. These results provide tentative support for the notion that active, item-wise removal is an executive process independent of inhibition.
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