Question

What are the clinical implications for attentional resources coming from a single, domain-general pool of resources and/or multiple, domain-specific pool of resources?

Answer 1

Ans) The existence of a central pool of domain-general resources in working memory.

- For this purpose, we examined interference between processing and storage activities involving information pertaining to different domain (verbal vs. visuo-spatial) while explicitly minimising representation-based interference at the peripheral level of working memory.

- The required maintenance of auditorily presented letters for further oral recall while concurrently judging visually presented spatial configurations by pressing keys.

- The required maintenance of visually presented random locations for further manual recall while concurrently judging auditorily presented words by giving oral responses. In both experiments, the cognitive load of processing was manipulated, a manipulation that clearly affected recall performance. This suggests strongly that working memory comprises a pool of domain-general attentional resources at the central level.