For this research, we used a dual-task approach to investigate the involvement of working memory in following written instructions. In two experiments, participants read instructions to perform a series of actions on objects and then recalled the instructions either by spoken repetition or performance of the action sequence. Participants engaged in concurrent articulatory suppression, backward-...

The Interacting Cognitive Subsystems framework, ICS (Barnard, 1985) proposes that central executive phenomena can be accounted for by two autonomous subsystems, which process different forms of meaning: propositional and schematic (implicational) meanings. The apparent supervisory role of the executive arises from limitations on the exchange of information between these and other cognitive subs...

Executive control, the ability to plan one's behaviour to achieve a goal, is a hallmark of frontal lobe function in humans and other primates. In the current study we report neural correlates of executive control in the avian nidopallium caudolaterale, a region analogous to the mammalian prefrontal cortex. Homing pigeons (Columba livia) performed a working memory task in which cues instructed t...

The present study investigated the consciousness-control relationship by suppressing the possibility to exert executive control on incidentally acquired knowledge. Participants first learned a sequence of locations through a serial reaction time (SRT) task. Next, to assess the extent to which the incidentally acquired knowledge was available to executive control, they were asked both to generat...

Abstract The goal of this study was to investigate if the selection external information for storage in visual working memory requires control by central executive when categorization targets is guided instructions. design experimental 3 (concurrent task) x 2 (instruction). Forty-eight university students saw eight colored shapes, four them surrounded square outlines. Memory assessed using a re...

This paper presents an infrastructure that uses program phase behaviour and brings together the advantages of simulation and physical measurement to capture detailed program power behaviour. Based on the direct correlation between instructions-per-cycle and power dissipation for the same piece of code, we refine the phase classification used in SimPoint to improve the similarity among the inter...

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