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| Title |
Short-Term Memory Maintenance of Object Locations during Active Navigation: Which Working Memory Subsystem Is Essential?
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| Published in |
PLOS ONE, May 2011
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0019707 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Oliver Baumann, Ashley J. Skilleter, Jason B. Mattingley |
| Abstract |
The goal of the present study was to examine the extent to which working memory supports the maintenance of object locations during active spatial navigation. Participants were required to navigate a virtual environment and to encode the location of a target object. In the subsequent maintenance period they performed one of three secondary tasks that were designed to selectively load visual, verbal or spatial working memory subsystems. Thereafter participants re-entered the environment and navigated back to the remembered location of the target. We found that while navigation performance in participants with high navigational ability was impaired only by the spatial secondary task, navigation performance in participants with poor navigational ability was impaired equally by spatial and verbal secondary tasks. The visual secondary task had no effect on navigation performance. Our results extend current knowledge by showing that the differential engagement of working memory subsystems is determined by navigational ability. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 33% |
| Unknown | 2 | 67% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 67% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 33% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 80 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Australia | 2 | 3% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 3% |
| Spain | 2 | 3% |
| France | 1 | 1% |
| Brazil | 1 | 1% |
| Italy | 1 | 1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1% |
| United States | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 69 | 86% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 19 | 24% |
| Researcher | 14 | 18% |
| Student > Master | 13 | 16% |
| Student > Bachelor | 6 | 8% |
| Professor | 6 | 8% |
| Other | 12 | 15% |
| Unknown | 10 | 13% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 26 | 33% |
| Neuroscience | 8 | 10% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 8 | 10% |
| Computer Science | 4 | 5% |
| Engineering | 4 | 5% |
| Other | 14 | 18% |
| Unknown | 16 | 20% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 18 August 2020.
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#1,058
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