{"pk":26391,"title":"Do Do Do, The The The:\nInteractivity and Articulatory Suppression in Mental Arithmetic","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Doing long sums in the absence of complementary\nactions or artefacts is a multi-step procedure that quickly\ntaxes working memory; congesting the phonological\nloop further handicaps performance. In the experiment\nreported here, participants completed long sums either\nwith hands down—the low interactivity condition—or\nby moving numbered tokens—the high interactivity\ncondition—while they repeated ‘the’ continuously,\nloading the phonological loop, or not. As expected,\narticulatory suppression substantially affected\nperformance, but more so in the low interactivity\ncondition. Independent measures of basic arithmetic\nskill and mathematics anxiety moderated the impact of\narticulatory suppression on performance in the low but\nnot in the high interactivity condition. These findings\nsuggest that working memory resources are augmented\nwith interactivity, underscoring the importance of\ncharacterizing the properties of the system as it is\nconfigured by the dynamic agent-environment coupling.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Interactivity"},{"word":"Mental Arithmetic"},{"word":"Articulatory Suppression"},{"word":"working memory"},{"word":"Systemic\nCognition"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6kc9j582","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Frédéric","middle_name":"","last_name":"Vallée-Tourangeau","name_suffix":"","institution":"Kingston University","department":""},{"first_name":"Miroslav","middle_name":"","last_name":"Sirota","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Essex","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2016-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26391/galley/16027/download/"}]}