Working memory, attention control, and the N-back task: a question of construct validity.

By M. Kane, Andrew R. A. Conway, T. K. Miura, Gregory J. H. Colflesh. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory and Cognition, 2007

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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What is working memory capacity, and how can we measure it? (2013, methodology): “Several studies reported only small correlations between performance on the n-back task and complex span tasks (Kane et al., 2007; Jaeggi et al., 2010a,b).”
The concurrent validity of the N-back task as a working memory measure (2010, methodology): “…using a single WM capacity measure such as a reading span task (RST) or an operation span task report rather weak intercorrelations (ranging between r (cid:2) .10 and r (cid:2) .24; Colom, Abad, Quiroga, Shih, & Flores-Mendoza, 2008; Kane et al., 2007; Oberauer, 2005; Roberts & Gibson, 2002).”
Quantitative Review Finds No Evidence of Cognitive Effects in Healthy Populations From Single-session Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS). (2015, background): “The accuracy and speed with which an individual responds to targets is a measure ofWM according to themodality of the stimuli utilized [16].”
Role of Working‐Memory Capacity in Cognitive Control (2010, background): “Michael Kane and his colleagues (Kane et al. 2007a) tested a large number of individuals on a battery of complex span tasks that included the operation span, reading span, and symmetry span.”
The Role of Executive Functions in Reading Comprehension (2017, background): “Kane et al. (2007) found only weak correlations (i.e., in the r = 0.20 range) between performance on complex span and letter n-back tasks.”
Improving fluid intelligence with training on working memory (2008, neutral): “A line of evidence consistent with this idea shows that individual differences in both working memory span and in n-back tasks are related to individual differences in Gf (23, 25, 32).”
Global connectivity of prefrontal cortex predicts cognitive control and intelligence (2012, result): “In practice, however, participants performing the N-back often use a heuristic approach that allows for a combination of familiarity-based and control-based responding (Kane et al., 2007), implying that the results of many N-back studies may reflect the aggregate action of several very different cog”
The Cognitive Atlas: Toward a Knowledge Foundation for Cognitive Neuroscience (2011, background): “Similarly, while the N -back task is often referred to as the “N -back working memory task,” serious questions have been raised regarding whether it truly measures the construct of “working memory” (Kane et al., 2007).”
A test of the relation between working-memory capacity and syntactic island effects (2012, background): “For example, the limitation may reflect differences in the cognitive flexibility and executive control necessary to avoid or resolve retrieval interference (e.g. Braver, Gray and Burgess 2007, Kane, Conway, Hambrick and Engle 2007).”
The Relationship between N-Back Performance and Matrix Reasoning--Implications for Training and Transfer. (2010, neutral): “Keywords: Cognitive training Fluid intelligence Working memory”