Figure 6.

Flow of events in the experiment of Oberauer and Bialkova (2011). Initially participants encoded two digits, one associated to a piano tone and the other to a trumpet tone, and they encoded two dot positions in a matrix, one red dot and one blue dot. They then worked through a series of updating steps. Each step consisted of one tone (piano or trumpet), indicating the digit to be updated, and played in high or low pitch, indicating the updating operation (+2 or −1). Simultaneously, an arrow was presented in red or blue, the color indicating the to-be-updated dot position. Participants had to mentally update the digit and the dot position and press the space bar when ready, upon which the next tone and the next arrow are presented simultaneously. Figure reprinted with permission from Oberauer and Bialkova (2011).