Hebb repetition effects in complex and simple span tasks are based on the same learning mechanism.

C Araya, K Oberauer, S Saito - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
The Hebb repetition effect shows improvement in serial recall of repeated lists compared to
random nonrepeated lists. Previous research using simple span tasks found that the Hebb …

Tenacious instructions: How to dismantle newly instructed task rules?

E Abrahamse, S Braem, J De Houwer… - Journal of …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Humans excel in instruction following to boost performance in unfamiliar situations. We can
do so through so-called prepared reflexes: Abstract instructions are instantly translated into …

Better source memory for remembered to-be-forgotten items than for remembered to-be-remembered items.

VL Ott, JM Höhs, J Rummel - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
When participants study items one-by-one and are directed to either remember or forget the
respective item directly after its presentation, retention of to-be-forgotten items is regularly …

Action plan discarding leads to unbinding of action features.

V Mocke, C Beste, B Pastötter… - Journal of Experimental …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Action planning can be construed as the temporary binding of action features to form a
representation known as an action file. This file is distinct from other possible, but currently …

A comprehensive comparison of attentional templates maintained in working memory and long-term memory

H Song, X Chen, B Cai, Y Fu, M Shen… - Journal of Memory and …, 2025 - Elsevier
Visual search could be guided by attentional templates maintained in either working
memory (WM) or long-term memory (LTM). Previous studies comparing the attentional …

Age-related differences in the removal of information from working memory

S Mei, Y Gao, W He, C Jarrold, T Wang - Journal of Experimental Child …, 2024 - Elsevier
Removal has been assumed to be a core mechanism in working memory. However, it
remains unclear whether children can actively remove outdated information from working …

Directed forgetting of pictures of everyday objects

PS Scotti, AM Maxcey - Journal of vision, 2022 - jov.arvojournals.org
Directed forgetting is a laboratory task in which subjects are explicitly cued to forget certain
items and remember others. Volitional control over the contents of memory has been used to …

Selectively maintaining an object's feature in visual working memory: A comparison between highly discriminable and fine-grained features

W Chen, S Ye, X Ding, M Shen, Z Gao - Memory & Cognition, 2024 - Springer
Selectively maintaining information is an essential function of visual working memory
(VWM). Recent VWM studies have mainly focused on selective maintenance of objects …

The “neglecting the vectorization" error in Stan: erroneous coding practices for computing marginal likelihood and Bayes factors in models with vectorized truncated …

Y Tsukamura, K Okada - Behaviormetrika, 2024 - Springer
The methods for statistical analysis continue to advance; however, they remain susceptible
to coding errors. This paper highlights the “neglecting the vectorization" error, which is a …

Removing information from working memory with a delay: Effective but not beneficial

H Dames, C Li, GT Frischkorn, K Oberauer - Psychonomic Bulletin & …, 2024 - Springer
Ideally, removing outdated information from working memory (WM) should have two
consequences: The removed content should be less accessible (removal costs), and other …