11:00 - 12:30
Talk Session 5
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11:00 - 12:30
Tue—HZ_2—Talks5—42
Tue-Talks5
Room:
Room: HZ_2
Chair/s:
Marcel Raphael Schreiner
Declarative and Procedural Bindings in Working Memory: Similarities in Maintenance and Repetition Learning
Tue—HZ_2—Talks5—4201
Presented by: Isabel Courage
Isabel Courage *Gidon T. Frischkorn
University of Zurich, Switzerland
Researchers typically conceptualize working memory representations as bindings. A distinction is made between two types of bindings: declarative and procedural bindings. Declarative bindings refer to objects of thought and represent bindings between contexts and contents, for example, a list position and a list item, such as a digit. Procedural bindings refer to actions performed on these objects of thought and describe bindings between conditions and actions, for example, executing a specific response if an even digit is displayed. However, it remains unclear whether maintenance and repetition learning are similar for these two kinds of bindings in working memory. In previous research, methodological differences in the experimental tasks and the behavioral measures applied to these binding types make a comparison between them challenging. To address these differences, we developed a declarative and a procedural version of a Hebb repetition task. Within these tasks, we repeated different lists either fully, partially, or not at all throughout the course of the tasks. To compare the cognitive processes underlying maintenance and repetition learning of declarative and procedural list contents, we implemented a cognitive measurement model. The results suggest that repetition learning develops similarly for lists with declarative and procedural bindings that were fully repeated. Additionally, we observed that the build-up of proactive interference through previous response selections influence both binding types alike for partially repeated lists. Taken together, there is an overlap in the maintenance and repetition learning for declarative and procedural bindings in working memory.
Keywords: Working Memory, Bindings, Repetition Learning, Declarative, Procedural