{"pk":27572,"title":"Simple and Complex Working Memory Tasks Allow Similar Benefits ofInformation Compression","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Because complex span tasks were designed to create a demanding concurrent task, the average span is usually lower(4 ± 1 items) than in simple span tasks (7 ± 2 items). One possible reason for the higher span of simple span tasks is thatparticipants can take profit of the spare time to chunk a few stimuli into 4 ± 1 groups. It follows that the respective spans of thesetwo types of tasks could be equal (at around 4 ± 1) when regularities are absent. We therefore predicted an interaction betweentask and chunkability, supporting a single higher span for a simple span task using chunkable items. However, observation ofthe spans in the non-chunkable vs. chunkable series refuted the idea that chunking is important solely in simple spans. Indeed,information compression processes contributed to performance levels to a similar extent in simple and complex span tasks.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Posters: Member Abstracts","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1x21n7t2","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Fabien","middle_name":"","last_name":"Mathy","name_suffix":"","institution":"Universit ́e Cˆote d’Azur","department":""},{"first_name":"Mustapha","middle_name":"","last_name":"Chekaf","name_suffix":"","institution":"Universit ́e Cˆote d’Azur","department":""},{"first_name":"Nelson","middle_name":"","last_name":"Cowan","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Missouri","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T13:00:00-05:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27572/galley/17208/download/"}]}