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    "pk": 28704,
    "title": "Working memory for object concepts relies on both linguistic and simulation\ninformation",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "The linguistic-simulation approach to cognition predicts that\nlanguage can enable more efficient conceptual processing than\nsensorimotor-affective simulations of concepts. We proposed that\nthis has implications for working memory, whereby use of\nlinguistic labels enables more efficient representation of concepts\nin a limited-capacity store than representation via full\nsensorimotor simulation. In two pre-registered experiments, we\nasked participants to remember sequences of real-world objects,\nand used articulatory suppression to selectively block access to\nlinguistic information, which we predicted would impair accuracy\nand latency of performance in an object memory recognition task.\nWe found that blocking access to language at encoding impaired\nmemory performance, but blocking access at retrieval\nunexpectedly facilitated speed of responding. These results\nsuggest that working memory for object concepts normally relies\non language but people can flexibly adapt their memory strategies\nwhen language is unavailable. Moreover, our data suggest that a\nsequence of up to 10 object concepts can be held in working\nmemory when relying on sensorimotor information alone, but this\ncapacity increases when linguistic labels are available.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "working memory; concepts; linguistic information;\nsimulation; embodied cognition"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers with Poster Presentations",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/99q0n9dm",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Agata",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Dymarska",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Lancaster University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Louise",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Connell",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Lancaster University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Briony",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Banks",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Lancaster University",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2019-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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