Title: Recognition of Pictures May Not Require Central Attentional Resources Full title: Recognition of Pictures May Not Require Central Attentional Resources Authors as cited: Green, C., Johnston, J.C., & Ruthruff, E. Staff authors:   Green, Collin   Johnston, James C.   Ruthruff, Eric D. Electronic copies: pdf Publication type: journal article Journal: Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society  , In press . Publication date: 2007 Abstract: Carrier and Pashler (1995) concluded that memory retrieval is indeed subject to the central bottleneck.  Using locus-of-slack logic in a dual-task paradigm, they reported that memory re-trieval on Task 2 was delayed until after central operations on a tone discrimination Task 1 had been completed.  Here, we present an experiment that extended Carrier and Pashler’s method to memory for pictures rather than words.  Our results suggest that recognition of pictures is not subject to central re-source limitations, at least when instructions and feedback en-courage participants to employ parallel-processing strategies and when preferred stimulus-response modality pairings (vis-ual to manual and auditory to vocal) are used. Grant support: ----- Related news: -----     Author to contact.   First author. ctrl #154 green,c-2007-n:1