Affective Working Memory: An Integrative Psychological Construct

Psychological Bulletin Is Working Memory Training Effective?

Working Memory Assessment : Construct Validity of the Brown - Peterson Test

The classical Brown-Peterson task is generally supposed to assess working memory capacities. To date, however, the construct validity of the task remains mostly unexamined. In this context, the aim of the present study was to demonstrate the convergent and the divergent validity as well as the clinical and the developmental sensitivity of a computerized version of the Brown-Peterson test. A gro...

Affective Enhancement of Working Memory Is Maintained in Depression

We currently know little about how performance on assessments of working memory capacity (WMC) that are designed to mirror the concurrent task demands of daily life are impacted by the presence of affective information, nor how those effects may be modulated by depression-a syndrome where sufferers report global difficulties with executive processing. Across 3 experiments, we investigated WMC f...

Running with emotion: when affective content hampers working memory performance.

This study tested the hypothesis that affective content may undermine rather than facilitate working memory (WM) performance. To this end, participants performed a running WM task with positive, negative and neutral words. In typical running memory tasks, participants are presented with lists of unpredictable length and are asked to recall the last three or four items. We found that accuracy wi...

Is working memory affective in dementia of alzheimer’s type?

Background: The aim of the present study was to examine whether patients with Dementia of Alzheimer’s Type (DAT) show a working memory emotional enhancement effect. Methods: We used an affective version of the working memory operation span test that included negative and positive words as well as neutral ones (as in the classical version). Results: Results showed that while healthy older adults...