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reference-back paradigm  

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  • Experimental paradigm based on the n-back task for studying working memory updating processes. On each trial, a stimulus (e.g., a letter or a face) is presented within a blue frame or a red frame. The subject is asked to indicate whether or not this stimulus is identical to the stimulus most recently presented in a red frame. Trials containing a red frame are termed reference trials. Trials with a blue frame are termed comparison trials (after Nir-Cohen et al., 2020).

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  • • Boag, R. J., Stevenson, N., van Dooren, R., Trutti, A. C., Sjoerds, Z., & Forstmann, B. U. (2021). Cognitive control of working memory : A model-based approach. Brain Sciences, 11(6), 721. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11060721

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: open]
  • • Chatham, C. H., & Badre, D. (2015). Multiple gates on working memory. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 1, 23‑31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2014.08.001

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]
  • • Kessler, Y. (2017). The role of working memory gating in task switching : A procedural version of the reference-back paradigm. Frontiers in Psychology, 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02260

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: open]
  • • Nir-Cohen, G., Kessler, Y., & Egner, T. (2020). Neural substrates of working memory updating. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 32(12), 2285–2302. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01625

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
  • • Rac-Lubashevsky, R., & Kessler, Y. (2016a). Dissociating working memory updating and automatic updating: The reference-back paradigm. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 42(6), 951–969. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000219

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
  • • Rac-Lubashevsky, R., & Kessler, Y. (2016b). Decomposing the n-back task : An individual differences study using the reference-back paradigm. Neuropsychologia, 90, 190‑199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.07.013

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]

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  • Frank Arnould

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