The process of spontaneous refreshing plays a central role in current models of working memory but is yet to be observed directly. In a recent study, Rey, Versace, and Plancher (2018) introduced a novel approach to investigate the mechanisms underlying refreshing: They presented tones previously associated with a visual mask during the free time of a complex span task and found that this impaired memory, presumably because reactivation of the masks disrupts refreshing. Here, we aimed to replicate their finding under more controlled settings with more observations per participant. We failed to replicate the previous findings, thereby questioning the robustness of the original effect.

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重新激活的视觉蒙版不会中断串行调用。

自发刷新的过程在当前的工作记忆模型中起着核心作用，但尚待直接观察。Rey，Versace和Plancher（2018）在最近的一项研究中引入了一种新颖的方法来研究刷新的潜在机制：他们在复杂跨度任务的空闲时间呈现了以前与视觉蒙版相关的色调，并发现这种受损的记忆，大概是因为重新激活面罩会破坏刷新。在这里，我们的目标是在每个参与者更多观察的情况下，在更受控的设置下复制他们的发现。我们未能复制先前的发现，从而质疑原始效果的鲁棒性。