A matter of priorities: High working memory enables (slightly) superior value-directed remembering

Working Memory;Cued Recall;Selectivity

Griffin, Michael Llewellyn ; Benjamin ; Aaron S.

关键词: Working Memory;    Cued Recall;    Selectivity;   

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【 摘 要 】

People with larger working memory capacity exhibit enhanced free recall but do not show any advantage on tests of recognition. This pair of results suggests that differences in the strategies that people bring to the task of learning and retrieving are superior in learners with high working memory. There is ample evidence that learners with high working memory do indeed bring better strategies to both encoding and retrieval, but as yet little evidence of whether higher working memory is related to greater effectiveness in prioritizing information across materials that differ in value. Using the value-directed remembering paradigm of Castel, Benjamin, Watkins, and Craik (2002), we examined whether learners with high working memory capacity show a particular advantage in remembering materials that are of high value. Across four experiments, we found that high working memory capacity led to a selective preference for remembering high-valued word pairs, but the effect was very modest and does not provide a complete picture of the relationship between working memory and recall.