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Attention and Working Memory Capacity: Insights From Blocking, Highlighting, and Knowledge Restructuring

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Experimental Psychology. General, January 2012
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Title
Attention and Working Memory Capacity: Insights From Blocking, Highlighting, and Knowledge Restructuring
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Journal of Experimental Psychology. General, January 2012
DOI 10.1037/a0026560
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Authors

David K. Sewell, Stephan Lewandowsky

Abstract

The concept of attention is central to theorizing in learning as well as in working memory. However, research to date has yet to establish how attention as construed in one domain maps onto the other. We investigate two manifestations of attention in category- and cue-learning to examine whether they might provide common ground between learning and working memory. Experiment 1 examined blocking and highlighting effects in an associative learning paradigm, which are widely thought to be attentionally mediated. No relationship between attentional performance indicators and working memory capacity (WMC) was observed, despite the fact that WMC was strongly associated with overall learning performance. Experiment 2 used a knowledge restructuring paradigm, which is known to require recoordination of partial category knowledge using representational attention. We found that the extent to which people successfully recoordinated their knowledge was related to WMC. The results illustrate a link between WMC and representational-but not dimensional-attention in category learning.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 1%
Switzerland 1 1%
Unknown 89 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 24 26%
Researcher 13 14%
Student > Master 11 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 10 11%
Student > Bachelor 7 8%
Other 12 13%
Unknown 14 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 58 64%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 4%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 3%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1 1%
Other 5 5%
Unknown 16 18%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. 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 15 September 2016.
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#16,047,334
of 25,374,647 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Experimental Psychology. General
#1,780
of 2,600 outputs
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#163,297
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Outputs of similar age from Journal of Experimental Psychology. General
#40
of 56 outputs
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