Processing of representations in declarative and procedural working memory
@article{Souza2012ProcessingOR,
title={Processing of representations in declarative and procedural working memory},
author={Alessandra S. Souza and Klaus Oberauer and Miriam Gade and Michel Druey},
journal={Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology},
year={2012},
volume={65},
pages={1006 - 1033}
}The article investigates the relation between declarative and procedural working memory (WM; Oberauer, 2009). Two experiments test the assumption that representations in the two subsystems are selected for processing in analogous ways. Participants carried out a series of decisions on memorized lists of digits. For each decision, they had to select declarative and procedural representations. Regarding declarative representations, participants selected a memory set and a digit within this set as…
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