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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 18.
Published in final edited form as: Cogn Neurosci. 2011 Oct 10;3(1):36–44. doi: 10.1080/17588928.2011.603829

Figure 2. Experiment 2: Effect of WM load on filling-in.

Figure 2

(a) Procedure Participants viewed a grey screen while hearing a sequence of 5 numbers, always preceded by ‘0’, presented in either ascending (low WM load) or random order (high WM load). This was followed by the filling-in task (Methods and Figure 1). Participants then viewed another grey screen and heard the word ‘probe’, followed by a number from the original memory set. They had to report the digit that followed the probe number in the original memory set. (b,c) Results. The effect of high (versus low) WM load on filling-in was in the opposite direction to that of perceptual load: Latency of filling-in was reduced under high WM load (b), but the probability of filling-in was not affected by WM load (c; note, however, that it was already near ceiling under low load). Data are averaged across ten participants. Error bars represent 1 standard error of the mean difference. * p<.05, 2-tailed t-test.