Examining cognitive control for procedural representation in working memory

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15H06306
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Experimental psychology
• Research Institution: Kyoto University
• Principal Investigator: Saeki Erina 京都大学, 教育学研究科, 研究員 (90424746)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-08-28 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: ワーキングメモリ / 認知コントロール / 手続き的表象 / 宣言的表象 / スイッチ課題

Outline of Final Research Achievements

A combination of declarative representation and procedural representation underpins our daily action. In this study, I devised a response-set switching task which required participants to switch between two response-rules without changing any judgment rule and examined whether procedural representation was endogenously controlled.
When a response set was specified by an external cue, participants could change the response-set before presenting stimulus. On the other hand, when a sequential switching of response-set with category judgment was required, they could not proactively change the response set. These results suggested that procedural representation can be endogenously controlled and the capacity of cognitive control for procedural representation may be differed with switching type (random or sequential) and declarative representation involved in a judgment rule.

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認知コントロール