Estimating the executive demands of a one-back choice reaction time task by means of the selective interference paradigm
(2007) The Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006- ) — Vol. 60, n° 8, p. 1116-1139 (2007)
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- The present study proposes a new executive task, the one-back choice reaction time (RT) task, and implements the selective interference paradigm to estimate the executive demands of the processing components involved in this task. Based on the similarities between a one-back choice RT task and the n-back updating task, it was hypothesized that one-back delaying of a choice reaction involves executive control. In three experiments, framed within Baddeley's (1986) working-memory model, a one-back choice RT task, a choice RT task, articulatory suppression, and matrix tapping were performed concurrently with primary tasks involving verbal, visuospatial, and executive processing. The results demonstrate that one-back delaying of a choice reaction interferes with tasks requiring executive control, while the potential interference at the level of the verbal or visuospatial working memory slave systems remains minimal. © 2006 The Experimental Psychology Society.
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Szmalec, A., & Vandierendonck, A. (2007). Estimating the executive demands of a one-back choice reaction time task by means of the selective interference paradigm. The Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006- ), 60(8), 1116-1139. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/237278 (Original work published 2007)