July 17, 2024Developmental Science

Encoding colors and tones into working memory concurrently: A developmental investigation

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NCNelson CowanUniversity of Missouri DGDominic GuitardCardiff University

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Developmental experiment reveals equivalent working memory performance in participants from first grade to adulthood, indicating preserved concurrent stream organization across age groups.

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Working memory recognition remains equally accurate whether colors and tones are delivered concurrently or successively, showing that simultaneous streams do not hinder retention.
Stimulus pairs presented for 0.5 s produced recognition accuracy matching successive presentation, demonstrating that dual modalities are retained without substantial performance losses.
Testing across age cohorts presented sequences of colored objects alongside tones, evaluating concurrent presentation against sequential formats during recognition memory trials.
Highlights that developmental gains in retention occur without added costs of attention sharing, showing that attentional limits do not restrict concurrent cross-modal processing.

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Cowan et al. (2024) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e5fefbb6db64358759321e https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13552

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Developmental experiment reveals equivalent working memory performance in participants from first grade to adulthood, indicating preserved concurrent stream organization across age groups.

Encoding colors and tones into working memory concurrently: A developmental investigation

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Encoding colors and tones into working memory concurrently: A developmental investigation

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