Recognition of Pictures May Not Require Central Attentional Resources
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چکیده
Carrier and Pashler (1995) concluded that memory retrieval is indeed subject to the central bottleneck. Using locus-of-slack logic in a dual-task paradigm, they reported that memory retrieval on Task 2 was delayed until after central operations on a tone discrimination Task 1 had been completed. Here, we present an experiment that extended Carrier and Pashler’s method to memory for pictures rather than words. Our results suggest that recognition of pictures is not subject to central resource limitations, at least when instructions and feedback encourage participants to employ parallel-processing strategies and when preferred stimulus-response modality pairings (visual to manual and auditory to vocal) are used.
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