The removal of information from working memory: an executive updating process

Krishneil Anand Singh

doi:10.26182/5b457c409d1ed

The removal of information from working memory: an executive updating process

Krishneil Anand Singh

School of Psychological Science

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Working memory (WM) is a short-term memory system important for higher level cognition. WM has a limited capacity. An active removal process has been identified to clear information that has become irrelevant for present processing in order to assist with WM maintenance and WM updating processes. This thesis contains five studies that aim to investigate the nature of the inter-relationships between removal, WM, and fluid intelligence, in addition to investigating whether removal is an inhibitory process. Results indicate that WM capacity fully mediates the relationship between removal and fluid intelligence, and that removal is not an inhibitory process.

Original language	English
Qualification	Doctor of Philosophy
Awarding Institution	The University of Western Australia
Supervisors/Advisors	Ecker, Ullrich, Supervisor Gignac, Gilles, Supervisor
Thesis sponsors	Australian Government Research Training Program
Award date	29 Jun 2018
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.26182/5b457c409d1ed
Publication status	Unpublished - 2018

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