ABSTRACT

Current perspectives on whether verbal interference affects working memory for movements have not yet reached a consensus. This study explored the causes of this controversy to reveal the relation between working memory for movements and the phonological loop. Experiment 1 explored whether the verbal description of movement moderated the effect of verbal interference (articulatory suppression) on working memory for movements. Verbal interference only affected working memory for easy-to-describe movements (lower accuracy). Experiment 2 excluded the interpretation of familiarity to the controversy and the effect of familiarity on the results of Experiment 1. Experiment 3 verified the results of Experiment 1 with another form of verbal interference, i.e., presenting irrelevant words visually. These three experiments suggest that the phonological loop is not recruited for processing working memory for movements in nature, but the two may interact through the verbal description prestored in the long-term memory. Thus, the current study provides a certain level of support for the separable movement-based subsystem hypothesis (Smyth, M. M., Pearson, N. A., & Pendleton, L. R. (1988). Movement and working memory: Patterns and positions in space. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A: Human Experimental Psychology, 40(3), 497–514. doi:10.1080/02724988843000041).

摘要

目前关于语言干扰是否会影响运动的工作记忆的观点尚未达成共识。本研究探讨了这一争议的原因，以揭示运动的工作记忆与语音循环之间的关系。实验 1 探讨了运动的语言描述是否会调节言语干扰（发音抑制）对运动工作记忆的影响。言语干扰仅影响工作记忆，以便进行易于描述的动作（准确性较低）。实验2排除了对争议的熟悉度解释以及熟悉度对实验1结果的影响。实验3通过另一种形式的言语干预，即视觉上呈现不相关的词语来验证实验1的结果。这三个实验表明，语音循环不是用于处理自然界运动的工作记忆，但两者可能通过长期记忆中预先存储的语言描述相互作用。因此，当前的研究为基于运动的可分离子系统假设提供了一定程度的支持（Smyth, MM, Pearson, NA, &​​ Pendleton, LR (1988). Movement and Working Memory: Patterns and Positions in Space。实验心理学季刊 A 部分：人类实验心理学，40（3），497-514。doi:10.1080/02724988843000041)。