title: Monitoring the capacity of working memory: executive control and effects of listening effort.
abstract: In two experiments, we used an interruption-and-recall (IAR) task to explore listeners' ability to monitor the capacity of working memory as new information arrived in real time. In this task, listeners heard recorded word lists with instructions to interrupt the input at the maximum point that would still allow for perfect recall. Experiment 1 demonstrated that the most commonly selected segment size closely matched participants' memory span, as measured in a baseline span test. Experiment 2 showed that reducing the sound level of presented word lists to a suprathreshold but effortful listening level disrupted the accuracy of matching selected segment sizes with participants' memory spans. The results are discussed in terms of whether online capacity monitoring may be subsumed under other, already enumerated working memory executive functions (inhibition, set shifting, and memory updating).
authors: Volen National Center for Complex Systems, Brandeis University, MS 013, Waltham, MA 02454-9110, USA.
authors: Nicole M
authors: NM
authors: Amichetti
authors: Raymond S
authors: RS
authors: Stanley
authors: Alison G
authors: AG
authors: White
authors: Arthur
authors: A
authors: Wingfield
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001307:Auditory Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D056344:Executive Function / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008570:Memory, Short-Term / Q000502:physiology*; D011939:Mental Recall / Q000502:physiology*; D012684:Sensory Thresholds / Q000502:physiology; D055815:Young Adult
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