Binding in working memory

跨通道绑定吗?事件的语言和空间特征的整合？是人类认知的核心。然而，它在工作记忆的研究中被忽视了，在工作记忆的研究中，占主导地位的理论框架包括用于保留语言和空间信息的单独子系统。利用涉及语言和空间信息同时听觉呈现的新范式，本研究旨在发现：(1)结合的基本特征；(2)先前确定的特定情态的基准效应在多大程度上是遗传的？由其他方式在有利的条件下进行绑定。研究结果将对工作记忆理论的发展提供重要的约束。此外，该研究将开发具有潜在重要应用于临床心理学的范式，在临床心理学中，各种形式的精神病理学都与结合缺陷有关。

Cross-modal binding?the integration of verbal and spatial features of events?is central to human cognition. However, it has been neglected in the study of working memory, where the dominant theoretical framework includes separate subsystems for the retention of verbal and spatial information. Using novel paradigms involving the concurrent auditory presentation of verbal and spatial information, the proposed research is directed at discovering (1) the fundamental characteristics of binding, and (2) the extent to which benchmark effects previously identified with a particular modality are ?inherited? by the other modality under conditions conducive to binding. Outcomes of the research will provide important constraints on the development of theories of working memory. In addition, the research will develop paradigms that have potentially important applications to clinical psychology, where diverse forms of psychopathology have been linked to deficits in binding.