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Article Dans Une Revue Psychonomic Bulletin and Review Année : 2021

Can activated long-term memory maintain serial order information?

Benjamin Kowialiewski
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Steve Majerus
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Sophie Portrat

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Abstract The maintenance of serial order information is a core component of working memory (WM). Many theoretical models assume the existence of specific serial order mechanisms. Those are considered to be independent from the linguistic system supporting maintenance of item information. This is based on studies showing that psycholinguistic factors strongly affect the ability to maintain item information, while leaving order recall relatively unaffected. Recent language-based accounts suggest, however, that the linguistic system could provide mechanisms that are sufficient for serial order maintenance. A strong version of these accounts postulates serial order maintenance as emerging from the pattern of activation occurring in the linguistic system. In the present study, we tested this assumption via a computational modeling approach by implementing a purely activation-based architecture. We tested this architecture against several experiments involving the manipulation of semantic relatedness, a psycholinguistic variable that has been shown to interact with serial order processing in a complex manner. We show that this activation-based architecture struggles to account for interactions between semantic knowledge and serial order processing. This study fails to support activated long-term memory as an exclusive mechanism supporting serial order maintenance.

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hal-03225870 , version 1 (13-05-2021)

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Benjamin Kowialiewski, Benoit Lemaire, Steve Majerus, Sophie Portrat. Can activated long-term memory maintain serial order information?. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 2021, ⟨10.3758/s13423-021-01902-3⟩. ⟨hal-03225870⟩
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