Abstract
We often remember information without its source (e.g., word or picture format). This phenomenon has been studied extensively in long-term memory but rarely in the context of short-term working memory (WM), which leaves open the question of whether source amnesia can result from a lack of memory encoding rather than forgetting. This study provided a series of striking and novel demonstrations showing participants’ inability to report the source of a color representation immediately after that color was used in a task and stored in memory. These counterintuitive findings occurred when participants repeatedly judged the congruency between two color representations from one single object (i.e., color and identity of a color word) or two distinct objects (i.e., color of a square and identity of a color word) and then were unexpectedly asked to report the source of one color representation. These discoveries suggest that source information is often not stored in WM.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 645-655 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Journal | Psychological Science |
Volume | 29 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Apr 1 2018 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Psychology