N-backer: An auditory n-back task with automatic scoring of spoken responses

Behavior Research Methods

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 888-896

  Monk, Andrew F ^a   Jackson, Dan ^b   Nielsen, Dea ^a   Jefferies, Elizabeth ^a   Olivier, Patrick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attentional deficits; Dual task experiments; Executive working memory

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SPEECH;

EID: 80052838731     PISSN: 1554351X     EISSN: 15543528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13428-011-0074-z     Document Type: Article

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