ASSERT: Augmentation Grant on Working Memory Capacity

Abstract

This grant funded three graduate students and 11 undergraduates over the three year period. The students were actively involved in research on the relationship between working memory and sustained and focused attention. That work has resulted in numerous publications and conference presentations demonstrating that individuals who score in the bottom quartile on measures of working memory capacity show more errors and/or are slower in the Stroop task than high WM individuals. Further, low WM individuals are impaired on the antisaccade task, suffer greater levels of proactive interference, show greater distraction from irrelevant tones in a delayed tone-matching task and have difficulty flexibly allocating their attention in a visual attention task.

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Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 30, 2000
Accession Number
ADA385804

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