Revisiting the attentional demands of rehearsal in working-memory tasks

Publication date: April 2019Source: Journal of Memory and Language, Volume 105Author(s): Mirko Thalmann, Alessandra S. Souza, Klaus OberauerAbstractThere is a recent surge of interest in maintenance processes in working memory, such as articulatory rehearsal, elaboration, and attentional refreshing. Yet, we know little about the central attentional demand of these processes. It has been assumed that articulatory rehearsal does not require central attention at all (Vergauwe, Camos, & Barrouillet, 2014), being in essence a cost-free strategy. In contrast, elaboration and attentional refreshing are assumed to incur large and continuous costs on central attention. We tested these assumptions in three experiments in which participants were presented with a varying number of words to rehearse. P...

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