Unimodal and crossmodal working memory representations of visual and kinesthetic movement trajectories

• Published in: Acta psychologica Vol. 136; no. 1; pp. 52 - 59
• Main Authors: Seemüller, Anna, Fiehler, Katja, Rösler, Frank
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kidlington Elsevier B.V 01.01.2011; Elsevier
• Subjects: Adult; Biological and medical sciences; Dual-task interference; Female; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Haptics; Human; Humans; Kinesthesis; Kinesthetic representations; Learning. Memory; Male; Matching-to-sample; Memory; Memory, Short-Term; Motion Perception; Movement; Multimodal perception; Perception; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Psychomotor Performance; Recognition (Psychology); Tactile perception; Vision; Visual representations; Young Adult; Kinesthetic representations; Visual representations; 2300; Vision; 2343; 2320; Haptics; Dual-task interference; Human; Interference; Cognition; Experimental study; Tactile sensitivity; Concurrent task; Working memory; Kinesthesia

The present study investigated whether visual and kinesthetic stimuli are stored as multisensory or modality-specific representations in unimodal and crossmodal working memory tasks. To this end, angle-shaped movement trajectories were presented to 16 subjects in delayed matching-to-sample tasks eit...