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Effects of Audiovisual Interactions on Working Memory Task Performance—Interference or Facilitation

(1) Background: The combined n-back + Go/NoGo paradigm was used to investigate whether audiovisual interactions interfere with or facilitate WM. (2) Methods: College students were randomly assigned to perform the working memory task based on either a single (visual or auditory) or dual (audiovisual)...

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Autores principales: He, Yang, Guo, Zhihua, Wang, Xinlu, Sun, Kewei, Lin, Xinxin, Wang, Xiuchao, Li, Fengzhan, Guo, Yaning, Feng, Tingwei, Zhang, Junpeng, Li, Congchong, Tian, Wenqing, Liu, Xufeng, Wu, Shengjun
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9313432/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35884692
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12070886
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author He, Yang
Guo, Zhihua
Wang, Xinlu
Sun, Kewei
Lin, Xinxin
Wang, Xiuchao
Li, Fengzhan
Guo, Yaning
Feng, Tingwei
Zhang, Junpeng
Li, Congchong
Tian, Wenqing
Liu, Xufeng
Wu, Shengjun
author_facet He, Yang
Guo, Zhihua
Wang, Xinlu
Sun, Kewei
Lin, Xinxin
Wang, Xiuchao
Li, Fengzhan
Guo, Yaning
Feng, Tingwei
Zhang, Junpeng
Li, Congchong
Tian, Wenqing
Liu, Xufeng
Wu, Shengjun
author_sort He, Yang
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description (1) Background: The combined n-back + Go/NoGo paradigm was used to investigate whether audiovisual interactions interfere with or facilitate WM. (2) Methods: College students were randomly assigned to perform the working memory task based on either a single (visual or auditory) or dual (audiovisual) stimulus. Reaction times, accuracy, and WM performance were compared across the two groups to investigate effects of audiovisual interactions. (3) Results: With low cognitive load (2-back), auditory stimuli had no effect on visual working memory, whereas visual stimuli had a small effect on auditory working memory. With high cognitive load (3-back), auditory stimuli interfered (large effect size) with visual WM, and visual stimuli interfered (medium effect size) with auditory WM. (4) Conclusions: Audiovisual effects on WM follow the resource competition theory, and the cognitive load of a visual stimulus is dominated by competition; vision always interferes with audition, and audition conditionally interferes with vision. With increased visual cognitive load, competitive effects of audiovisual interactions were more obvious than those with auditory stimuli. Compared with visual stimuli, audiovisual stimuli showed significant interference only when visual cognitive load was high. With low visual cognitive load, the two stimulus components neither facilitated nor interfered with the other in accordance with a speed–accuracy trade-off.
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spelling pubmed-93134322022-07-26 Effects of Audiovisual Interactions on Working Memory Task Performance—Interference or Facilitation He, Yang Guo, Zhihua Wang, Xinlu Sun, Kewei Lin, Xinxin Wang, Xiuchao Li, Fengzhan Guo, Yaning Feng, Tingwei Zhang, Junpeng Li, Congchong Tian, Wenqing Liu, Xufeng Wu, Shengjun Brain Sci Article (1) Background: The combined n-back + Go/NoGo paradigm was used to investigate whether audiovisual interactions interfere with or facilitate WM. (2) Methods: College students were randomly assigned to perform the working memory task based on either a single (visual or auditory) or dual (audiovisual) stimulus. Reaction times, accuracy, and WM performance were compared across the two groups to investigate effects of audiovisual interactions. (3) Results: With low cognitive load (2-back), auditory stimuli had no effect on visual working memory, whereas visual stimuli had a small effect on auditory working memory. With high cognitive load (3-back), auditory stimuli interfered (large effect size) with visual WM, and visual stimuli interfered (medium effect size) with auditory WM. (4) Conclusions: Audiovisual effects on WM follow the resource competition theory, and the cognitive load of a visual stimulus is dominated by competition; vision always interferes with audition, and audition conditionally interferes with vision. With increased visual cognitive load, competitive effects of audiovisual interactions were more obvious than those with auditory stimuli. Compared with visual stimuli, audiovisual stimuli showed significant interference only when visual cognitive load was high. With low visual cognitive load, the two stimulus components neither facilitated nor interfered with the other in accordance with a speed–accuracy trade-off. MDPI 2022-07-06 /pmc/articles/PMC9313432/ /pubmed/35884692 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12070886 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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He, Yang
Guo, Zhihua
Wang, Xinlu
Sun, Kewei
Lin, Xinxin
Wang, Xiuchao
Li, Fengzhan
Guo, Yaning
Feng, Tingwei
Zhang, Junpeng
Li, Congchong
Tian, Wenqing
Liu, Xufeng
Wu, Shengjun
Effects of Audiovisual Interactions on Working Memory Task Performance—Interference or Facilitation
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title_full Effects of Audiovisual Interactions on Working Memory Task Performance—Interference or Facilitation
title_fullStr Effects of Audiovisual Interactions on Working Memory Task Performance—Interference or Facilitation
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title_short Effects of Audiovisual Interactions on Working Memory Task Performance—Interference or Facilitation
title_sort effects of audiovisual interactions on working memory task performance—interference or facilitation
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9313432/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35884692
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12070886
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