Interference Affects Working Memory Bilingualism
Abstract
Keywords: Interference, Memory, Caffeine, Bilingualism
How Interference Affects Working Memory Recall
Attention and memory tend to go together. The better attention we pay to something, the better we can remember it later on. This notion memory and attention pertains greatly to working memory, which deals with small amounts of information that are ready for immediate use (Chun & Turk-Browne, 2007). The connection between attention and memory has been studied for many years through MRI’s, EEG’s (Electroencephalography ), and memory recall tests (word lists/letter lists) (Jones, Hughes, & Macken, 2010). Mainly, what studies have tried to find is whether direct attention is needed for encoding of information (Fougnie, 2008).Distractions …show more content…
The participants were separated into two conditions, Group A which was the no distraction condition, and Group B which was the distraction condition. The average age of the participants was 25. 08 (SD = 8.03) with the minimum age being 18 and the maximum age being 52. The sample consisted of 20% males and 80% females. The ethnicities of the partipants were as follows: 17.5% Asian or Asian American, 7.5% Black or African American, 32.5% Hispanic or Latino, 30% Non-Hispanic White, 12.5% Other. Out of the 40 participants, 72.5% were fluent in languages other than English and 27.5% were not fluent in other languages. (ADD LANGUAGE). (ADD …show more content…
The results from our Independent sample t-test between the two conditions (noise/no noise) illustrated that participants in Group B (noise condition) recalled more words than participants in Group A (no noise), t(38) = -2.14 , p <.05. The correlation between caffeine consumption and memory recall was found to be of significance r(39) = .41, p< .01. The following t-test measured gender differences in memory recall across both groups, it did not show any differences among gender, t(38) = -1.33, p = .19. Our last test was a correlation between bilingualism (fluency) and memory recall. We failed to find a significance between these two variables r(39) = -.04, p =
Keywords: Interference, Memory, Caffeine, Bilingualism
How Interference Affects Working Memory Recall
Attention and memory tend to go together. The better attention we pay to something, the better we can remember it later on. This notion memory and attention pertains greatly to working memory, which deals with small amounts of information that are ready for immediate use (Chun & Turk-Browne, 2007). The connection between attention and memory has been studied for many years through MRI’s, EEG’s (Electroencephalography ), and memory recall tests (word lists/letter lists) (Jones, Hughes, & Macken, 2010). Mainly, what studies have tried to find is whether direct attention is needed for encoding of information (Fougnie, 2008).Distractions …show more content…
The participants were separated into two conditions, Group A which was the no distraction condition, and Group B which was the distraction condition. The average age of the participants was 25. 08 (SD = 8.03) with the minimum age being 18 and the maximum age being 52. The sample consisted of 20% males and 80% females. The ethnicities of the partipants were as follows: 17.5% Asian or Asian American, 7.5% Black or African American, 32.5% Hispanic or Latino, 30% Non-Hispanic White, 12.5% Other. Out of the 40 participants, 72.5% were fluent in languages other than English and 27.5% were not fluent in other languages. (ADD LANGUAGE). (ADD …show more content…
The results from our Independent sample t-test between the two conditions (noise/no noise) illustrated that participants in Group B (noise condition) recalled more words than participants in Group A (no noise), t(38) = -2.14 , p <.05. The correlation between caffeine consumption and memory recall was found to be of significance r(39) = .41, p< .01. The following t-test measured gender differences in memory recall across both groups, it did not show any differences among gender, t(38) = -1.33, p = .19. Our last test was a correlation between bilingualism (fluency) and memory recall. We failed to find a significance between these two variables r(39) = -.04, p =