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The Sternberg Paradigm: Correcting Encoding Latencies in Visual and Auditory Test Designs

Klabes, Julian ; Babilon, Sebastian ; Zandi, Babak ; Khanh, Tran Quoc (2021)
The Sternberg Paradigm: Correcting Encoding Latencies in Visual and Auditory Test Designs.
In: Vision, 2021, 5 (2)
doi: 10.26083/tuprints-00019368
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Item Type: Article
Type of entry: Secondary publication
Title: The Sternberg Paradigm: Correcting Encoding Latencies in Visual and Auditory Test Designs
Language: English
Date: 26 August 2021
Place of Publication: Darmstadt
Year of primary publication: 2021
Publisher: MDPI
Journal or Publication Title: Vision
Volume of the journal: 5
Issue Number: 2
Collation: 13 Seiten
DOI: 10.26083/tuprints-00019368
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Origin: Secondary publication via sponsored Golden Open Access
Abstract:

The Sternberg task is a widely used tool for assessing the working memory performance in vision and cognitive science. It is possible to apply a visual or auditory variant of the Sternberg task to query the memory load. However, previous studies have shown that the subjects’ corresponding reaction times differ dependent on the used variant. In this work, we present an experimental approach that is intended to correct the reaction time differences observed between auditory and visual item presentation. We found that the subjects’ reaction time offset is related to the encoding speed of a single probe item. After correcting for these individual encoding latencies, differences in the results of both the auditory and visual Sternberg task become non-significant, p = 0.252. Thus, an equal task difficulty can be concluded for both variants of item presentation.

Status: Publisher's Version
URN: urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-193684
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Keywords: working memory performance; Sternberg task; memory load; reaction times; differences between visual and auditory encoding

Classification DDC: 600 Technology, medicine, applied sciences > 600 Technology
Divisions: 18 Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology > Light Technology (from Oct. 2021 renamed "Adaptive Lighting Systems and Visual Processing")
Date Deposited: 26 Aug 2021 12:06
Last Modified: 14 Nov 2023 19:04
URI: https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/id/eprint/19368
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