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- Title
Roles of working memory capacity and long-term working memory skill in complex task performance.
- Authors
Young Woo Sohn; Doane, Stephanie M.
- Abstract
In the present research, we examined the relative roles of domain-general and domain-specific individual difference characteristics in complex cognitive task performance. Specifically, we examined the impact both of working memory (WM) capacity and of acquired skills used to encode presented information in an accessible form in long-term working memory (LTWM) on performance in a complex aviation task environment. Measures of WM capacity and LTWM skill served as performance predictors. A criterion measure of task performance was related to the predictor measures. The results indicated that an increase in LTWM skill decreases the role of WM capacity as the determinant of complex task performance, although both measures are important performance predictors. We discuss how the two distinct WM constructs coexist and interact to support complex task performance.
- Subjects
COGNITION; MEMORY; TASK analysis
- Publication
Memory & Cognition, 2003, Vol 31, Issue 3, p458
- ISSN
0090-502X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3758/BF03194403