Olfactory or auditory stimulation and their hedonic valúes differentially modulate visual working memory

Donoso, AM; Faundes, V; Falcon, F; Esparza, P; Maldonado, PE

Abstract

Working memory (WM) designates the retention of objects or events in conscious awareness when these are not present in the environment. Many studies have focused on the interference properties of distracter stimuli in working memory, but these studies have mainly examined the influence of the intensity of these stimuli. Little is known about the memory modulation of hedonic content of distracter stimuli as they also may affect WM performance or attentional tasks. In this paper, we have studied the performance of a visual WM task where subjects recollect from five to eight visually presented objects while they are simultaneously exposed to additional - albeit weak- auditory or olfactory distracter stimulus. We found that WM performance decreases as the number of

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Título según WOS: Olfactory or auditory stimulation and their hedonic values differentially modulate visual working memory
Título según SCOPUS: Olfactory or auditory stimulation and their hedonic values differentially modulate visual working memory
Título según SCIELO: Olfactory or auditory stimulation and their hedonic valúes differentially modulate visual working memory
Título de la Revista: BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH
Volumen: 41
Número: 4
Editorial: Springer Nature
Fecha de publicación: 2008
Página de inicio: 379
Página final: 387
Idioma: en
DOI:

10.4067/S0716-97602008000400003

Notas: ISI, SCIELO, SCOPUS