Zhang Hang's research group and collaborators found that free recall reduces inter-item interference during working memory retrieval

On April 23, 2021, " Cognition " published an article titled "Free-recall benefit, inhomogeneity and between-item interference in working memory" by Zhang Hang's research group and collaborators at Peking University [1], researcher We have studied the dynamic extraction process of visual working memory with the help of mouse trajectory tracking, and found that there is spontaneous mutual interference between different items in this process; when people can freely decide the recall order instead of recalling multiple items in a specified order, The interference between items will be reduced and the overall accuracy of recall will be improved

Among the many researches on visual working memory, this research has the following two characteristics in method

The researchers found that the three items in the working memory were also extracted sequentially, and the recall accuracy of the free order recall was higher than that of the specified order recall

This research was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Peking University-Tsinghua Life Sciences Joint Center

[1] Hao, Y.

2021-12-13