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MEMORY & COGNITION
Volume 29, Issue 3, Pages 484-492Publisher
PSYCHONOMIC SOC INC
DOI: 10.3758/BF03196399
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Two experiments are reported in which subjects performed working memory and enumeration tasks. In the first experiment, subjects scoring low on the working memory task also performed poorly on the attention-demanding counting portion of the enumeration task. Yet no span differences were found for the non-attention-demanding subitizing portion. In Experiment 2, conjunctive and disjunctive distracters were added to the enumeration task. Although both high and low working memory span subjects were adversely affected by the addition of conjunctive distractors, the effect was much greater for the low-span subjects. Implications from these findings are that differences in working memory capacity correspond to differences in capability for controlled attention.
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