Which statement about working memory is false?
A) Rats and pigeons use retrospective coding to remember early choices and prospective coding to remember later choices.
B) Retrospective coding decreases task difficulty as the number of places visited increases; prospective coding increases task difficulty as the number of places yet-to-visit increases.
C) When subjects are interrupted or prevented from continuing their selection response, the greatest disruption of performance occurs on choices in the middle, rather than on early or later choices.
D) Working memory performance is disrupted much more than reference memory performance when the hippocampus is damaged.

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Statement B is false because it inaccurately describes the relationship between coding types and task difficulty. In reality, retrospective coding (looking back on what has been done) tends to increase in difficulty as the number of places visited increases, because the subject has more items to remember. Conversely, prospective coding (looking forward to what needs to be done) might become more challenging as the number of places yet-to-visit decreases, especially if the task requires keeping track of remaining targets, but the statement as phrased misrepresents the dynamics of task difficulty in relation to these coding strategies.

Which Statement About Working Memory Is False