Dissociation of Storage and Rehearsal in Verbal Working Memory: Evidence From Positron Emission Tomography
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Current cognitive models of verbal working memory include two components a phonological store and a rehearsal mechanism that refreshes the contents of this store We present research using positron emission tomography (PET) to provide further evidence for this functional division In Experiment 1, subjects performed a variant of Sternberg's (1966) item recognition task Experiment 2 used a continuous memory task with control conditions designed to separate the brain regions underlying storage and rehearsal The results show that independent brain regions mediate storage and rehearsal In Experiment 3, a dual-task procedure supported the assumption that these memory tasks elicited a rehearsal strategy
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The neuroimaging claims are based largely on observations of activation for a nonlanguage task in or near a general brain region previously implicated in language, without a direct demonstration of overlap of linguistic and nonlinguistic activations in the same subjects.
“However, the neuroimaging claims are based largely on observations of activation for a nonlanguage task in or near a general brain region previously implicated in language (e.g., Broca's area), without a direct demonstration of overlap of linguistic and nonlinguistic activations in the same subjects.”
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- Authors
- Awh, E., Jonides, J., Smith, E. E., Schumacher, E. H., Koeppe, R. A., & Katz, S.
- Affiliations
- University of Michigan (US)
- Venue
- Psychological Science
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1996-01
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 25-31
- ISSN
- 0956-7976 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-9280
- OpenAlex
- W2121723878
- Cited by
- 705
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- 22
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- FWCI
- 13.81
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Psychological Science (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Cognitive Abilities and Testing
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Keywords
- verbal working memory, phonological store, rehearsal, memory storage, rehearsal strategies, dual-tasking, item recognition, brain regions, functional dissociation
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