When Distractors and To-Be-Remembered Items Compete for the Control of Action: A New Perspective on Serial Memory for Spatial Information

被引：11

作者：

Guerard, Katherine ^{[1
]}

Tremblay, Sebastien ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Moncton, Ecole Psychol, Moncton, NB E1A 3E9, Canada

[2] Univ Laval, Ecole Psychol, Quebec City, PQ G1K 7P4, Canada

来源：

JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-HUMAN PERCEPTION AND PERFORMANCE | 2011年 / 37卷 / 03期

基金：

加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会;

关键词：

memory for spatial information; eye movements; interference; SHORT-TERM-MEMORY; WORKING-MEMORY; INHIBITION; INTERFERENCE; ATTENTION; SIMILARITY; REHEARSAL; SPEECH; RETURN; SELECTION;

D O I：

10.1037/a0020561

中图分类号：

B84 [心理学];

学科分类号：

04 ; 0402 ;

摘要：

In serial memory for spatial information, performance is impaired when distractors are interpolated between to-be-remembered (TBR) stimuli (Tremblay, Nicholls, Parmentier, & Jones, 2005). The so-called sandwich effect, combined with the use of eye tracking, served as a tool for examining the role of the oculomotor system in serial memory for spatial information. Participants had to recall the order in which sequences of TBR locations were presented. In some trials, to-be-ignored blue dots were presented after each TBR location. Our results show that response locations shift toward the location of the distractors, and this deviation is related to the eye movement deviation toward the distractor location. These results suggest that TBR and to-be-ignored locations are encoded onto a common map that could lie within the oculomotor system. Interference in memory for spatial information is interpreted in light of a model of oculomotor behavior (Godijn & Theeuwes, 2002b).

引用

页码：834 / 843

页数：10