Inner speech as a retrieval aid for task goals: the effects of cue type and articulatory suppression in the random task cuing paradigm

Miyake, Akira; Emerson, Michael J.; Padilla, Francisca; Ahn, Jeung-chan

doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2003.12.004

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“…This proposal is also consistent with the findings reported by Bryck and Mayr (2005) which suggest that verbalization of sequential information in task switching is critical for maintenance of sequential courses of actions or sequential plans. These and other studies (Baddeley, Chincotta, & Adlam, 2001;Emerson & Miyake, 2003;Miyake, Emerson, Padilla, & Ahn, 2004;Saeki & Saito, 2009) strongly indicate that working memory forms a basis for task switching without implying that shortage of working memory capacity would completely disrupt task-switching performance.…”

Section: Modeling Assumptionsmentioning

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A chain-retrieval model for voluntary task switching

Vandierendonck

Demanet

Liefooghe

et al. 2012

Cognitive Psychology

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To account for the findings obtained in voluntary task switching, this article describes and tests the chain-retrieval model. This model postulates that voluntary task selection involves retrieval of task information from long-term memory, which is then used to guide task selection and task execution. The model assumes that the retrieved information consists of acquired sequences (or chains) of tasks, that selection may be biased towards chains containing more task repetitions and that bottom-up triggered repetitions may overrule the intended task. To test this model, four experiments are reported. In Studies 1 and 2, sequences of task choices and the corresponding transition sequences (task repetitions or switches) were analyzed with the help of dependency statistics. The free parameters of the chain-retrieval model were estimated on the observed task sequences and these estimates were used to predict autocorrelations of tasks and transitions. In Studies 3 and 4, sequences of hand choices and their transitions were analyzed similarly. In all studies, the chain-retrieval model yielded better fits and predictions than statistical models of event choice. In applications to voluntary task switching (Studies 1 and 2), all three parameters of the model were needed to account for the data. When no task switching was required (Studies 3 and 4), the chain-retrieval could account for the data with one or two parameters clamped to a neutral value. Implications for our understanding of voluntary task selection and broader theoretical implications are discussed.

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Section: Modeling Assumptionsmentioning

confidence: 54%

A chain-retrieval model for voluntary task switching

Vandierendonck

Demanet

Liefooghe

et al. 2012

Cognitive Psychology

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“…Assigning people to perform an extra task while solving problems would normally reduce success at the problems, but this metaanalysis found across dozens of studies that assigning research participants to verbalize their thoughts while solving problems had essentially no effect on performance, as compared to performing the same tasks silently. In a similar vein, recent studies have shown that suppressing inner speech interferes with some executive function activities such as task switching (Emerson & Mikaye, 2003;Miyake, Emerson, Padilla, & Ahn, 2004).…”

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Conscious thought is for facilitating social and cultural interactions: How mental simulations serve the animal–culture interface.

Baumeister¹,

Masicampo²

2010

Psychological Review

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Five empirically based critiques have undermined the standard assumption that conscious thought is primarily for input (obtaining information from the natural environment) or output (the direct control of action). Instead, we propose that conscious thought is for internal processing, to facilitate downstream interaction with the social and cultural environment. Human consciousness enables the construction of meaningful, sequential thought, as in sentences and narratives, logical reasoning, counting and quantification, causal understanding, narratives, and the simulation of events (including nonpresent ones). Conscious thought sequences resemble short films that the brain makes for itself, thereby enabling different parts of brain and mind to share information. The production of conscious thoughts is closely linked to the production of speech because the human mind evolved to facilitate social communication and information sharing, as culture became humankind's biological strategy. The influence of conscious thought on behavior can be vitally helpful but is mostly indirect. Conscious simulation processes are useful for understanding the perspectives of social interaction partners, for exploring options in complex decisions, for replaying past events (both literally and counterfactually) so as to learn, and for facilitating participation in culture in other ways.

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“…There is little doubt that these control processes must act in interplay with the contents of the phonological loop, but as already mentioned, the present study does not provide any direct support for this hypothesis. Nevertheless, a cooperation of the central executive with the phonological loop would seem more plausible (see, e.g., Emerson & Miyake, 2003;Liefooghe, Vandierendonck, Muyllaert, & Van Neste, 2005;Miyake, Emerson, Padilla, & Ahn, 2004), but has to wait for more direct supporting data.…”

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The role of working memory in the carry operation of mental arithmetic: Number and value of the carry

Imbo

Vandierendonck

Rammelaere

2007

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

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Two experiments were conducted to investigate the role of phonological and executive working-memory components in the carry operation in mental arithmetic. We manipulated the number of carry operations, as previous research had done, but also the value that had to be carried. Results of these experiments show that in addition to the number of carry operations, the value of the carry is also an important variable determining the difficulty of arithmetical sums. Furthermore, both variables (number and value) interacted with each other in such a way that the combination of multiple carries and values of carries larger than one resulted in more difficult problems irrespective of the presence of a working-memory load. The findings with respect to working-memory load suggest that mainly the central executive is important in handling the number of carry operations as well as the value that has to be carried. The implications of the present findings for our views on mental arithmetic and its reliance on working memory are discussed.

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Inner speech as a retrieval aid for task goals: the effects of cue type and articulatory suppression in the random task cuing paradigm

Cited by 266 publications

References 22 publications

A chain-retrieval model for voluntary task switching

A chain-retrieval model for voluntary task switching

Conscious thought is for facilitating social and cultural interactions: How mental simulations serve the animal–culture interface.

The role of working memory in the carry operation of mental arithmetic: Number and value of the carry

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