The separability of working memory resources for spatial thinking and language processing: An individual differences approach
The separability of working memory resources for spatial thinking and language processing: An individual differences approach
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DOI：
10.1037/0096-3445.125.1.4
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发表时间：
1996-03-01
影响因子：
4.1
通讯作者：
Miyake, A
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作者：
Shah, P;Miyake, A
当前的研究表明大学生的空间工作记忆资源和言语工作记忆资源是可分离的。在实验1中，我们设计了一个空间广度任务，该任务对空间工作记忆的加工和存储成分都有要求。这一测量与空间能力（空间可视化）测量相关，但与言语能力测量无关。相比之下，阅读广度测试是一种常见的言语工作记忆测试，它与言语能力测量相关，但与空间能力测量无关。实验2采用干扰范式交叉考察广度任务的加工和存储需求，重复了这种分离现象，并进一步表明工作记忆任务的加工和存储成分对于预测空间思维和语言加工任务的表现都很重要。
The current study demonstrates the separability of spatial and verbal working memory resources among college students. In Experiment 1, we developed a spatial span task that taxes both the processing and storage components of spatial working memory. This measure correlates with spatial ability (spatial visualization) measures, but not with verbal ability measures. In contrast, the reading span test, a common test of verbal working memory, correlates with verbal ability measures, but not with spatial ability measures. Experiment 2, which uses an interference paradigm to cross the processing and storage demands of span tasks, replicates this dissociation and further demonstrates that both the processing and storage components of working memory tasks are important for predicting performance on spatial thinking and language processing tasks.