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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Operation Span"”.
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Connecting the Dots between N-back, Operation Span, and Raven's Progressive Matrices
… of working memory capacity, N-back tasks and Operation Span (OSPAN) correlate inadequately to use them interchangeably. Further, both tasks appear to have unique relationships with Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices (RAPM), a measure of fluid intelligence, but the nature of these …
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The Role of Individual Differences in the Acceptability of Island Violations in Native and Non-native Speakers
… a measure of working-memory capacity (i.e., the operation span scores) and a measure of sensitivity to island effects (i.e., the DD scores). Neither English native speakers nor learners provided evidence of a relationship between operation span scores, which measure working-memory capacity, and …
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Comparison of an Acute Bout of Exercise to a Sugary Snack on Energy, Mood and Cognitive Performance
… of Mood States Questionnaire, and Automated Operation Span (OSPAN) and Digit Span tests to measure memory and attention. On two separate days subjects consumed candy or walked on a treadmill for 10 minutes, then measurements were repeated at 30-min, 60-min, and 120-min post. Two-way ANOVA …
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The Effect of Mindfulness on Racial Stereotype Activation and Application
… Attention Network Task (ANT), and Automated Operation Span Task, respectively. Explicit racism (Modern Racism Scale, Right-Wing Authoritarianism, Social Dominance Orientation), mindfulness (Five- Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire), depression, anxiety, and stress (Depression, Anxiety, and …
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EXPLORING AGE DIFFERENCES IN THE RESOURCE MODEL OF DEPLETION
… in young and older adults on the automated operation-s pan task (Unsworth, Heitz, Schrock, & Engle, 2005), as well as subjective measures of d epletion, following a controlled writing task. There was no effect of depletion on operation-span performance, possibly because working memory is not …
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Characterizing Task-Switching Performance in Adults with ADHD
… the response-to-stimulus interval (RSI) and an operation span task (OSPAN), as well as self-reported executive functioning deficits, were compared between an ADHD group and a control group. Results failed to replicate those of Sams et al. (2017), perhaps due to low power and differences in …
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Memory for actions that are done, imagined, or promised in text
… the locks?” Participants then completed an Operation Span and a Reading Span task to measure working memory. The results showed a strong main effect of verb type (Do, Promise, Think) in both accuracy and reading times, with the mean accuracy for the Do condition at 76% correct vs Promise at …
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Using the Encoding Specificity Principle to Assess the Nature of the Secondary Memory Component of Working Memory
… participants engaged in a modified operation span task where they learned weakly related word-pairs ("era : TIME"). During recall, participants were either provided the same cue from earlier in the series ("era"; match cue), a different cue that was not shown earlier in the series …
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The Relationship between Bilingualism, Cognitive Control, and Mind Wandering
… better performance than monolinguals on Operation Span, Numerical Stroop, SART, Color- Shape, and Letter Memory tasks, which are measures of working memory, proactive inhibition, reactive inhibition, shifting, and updating, respectively. We further hypothesized that if bilinguals …
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Intentional forgetting in depressed states
… executive control based on their scores on the operation span with words task (OSPAN). The study found that non-dysphoric individuals with good control demonstrated successful suppression. However, dysphoric individuals with good control were unsuccessful at suppression. The fifth experiment …