Plancher Gaën, Lévêque Yohana, Fanuel Lison, Piquandet Gaëlle, Tillmann Barbara
Cognitive Mechanisms Research Laboratory, Lumière University Lyon 2.
Auditory Cognition and Psychoacoustics Team, Lyon Neuroscience Research Center.
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn. 2018 May;44(5):812-818. doi: 10.1037/xlm0000481. Epub 2017 Nov 2.
Music cognition research has provided evidence for the benefit of temporally regular structures guiding attention over time. The present study investigated whether maintenance in working memory can benefit from an isochronous rhythm. Participants were asked to remember series of 6 letters for serial recall. In the rhythm condition of Experiment 1A, a wood block sound was presented 6 times with a regular stimulus-onset-asynchrony during the delay between encoding and recall. In the silent condition, no sound was presented. The presence of the regular rhythm resulted in improved memory performance (Experiment 1A.), an effect also observed under articulatory suppression (Experiment 2), suggesting that temporal regularities can enhance maintenance in working memory including attentional refreshing. Experiment 1B confirmed this interpretation by showing that the presentation of a nonisochronous rhythm did not result in improved memory performance in comparison to a silent condition. The findings are discussed in relation to current working memory models and the theoretical framework of dynamic attending. (PsycINFO Database Record
音乐认知研究已经为随时间引导注意力的时间规律结构的益处提供了证据。本研究调查了工作记忆中的维持是否能从等时节奏中受益。参与者被要求记住一系列6个字母以便进行系列回忆。在实验1A的节奏条件下，在编码和回忆之间的延迟期间，木块声音以规则的刺激开始异步呈现6次。在安静条件下，不呈现声音。规则节奏的存在导致记忆表现得到改善（实验1A），在发音抑制条件下也观察到了这种效应（实验2），这表明时间规律可以增强工作记忆中的维持，包括注意力的刷新。实验1B通过表明与安静条件相比，呈现非等时节奏并没有导致记忆表现的改善，证实了这一解释。研究结果结合当前的工作记忆模型和动态注意的理论框架进行了讨论。（PsycINFO数据库记录）
