Concurrent and retroactive interference effects in memory of movement patterns.
Three experiments examined memory for enacted and observed movement patterns. The effect of visuo-spatial tracing tasks requiring overt motor movements, comparable to those required by the to-be-recalled movement pattern task when enacted, were compared with the effects of non-motor interference tasks, such as articulatory suppression and counting backwards. None of the experiments was able to detect indices of motor mechanisms in memory of movement patterns. The results are discussed in terms of theories of action memory and working memory and of a problem-solving account.
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Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Box 1094 Blindern, N-0317, Oslo, Norway. tore.helstrup@psykologi.uio.no
D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D009068:Movement / Q000502:physiology*; D011897:Random Allocation; D013028:Space Perception / Q000502:physiology; D013037:Spatial Behavior; D013060:Speech / Q000502:physiology*; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology