The reliability of estimating visual working memory capacity

The reliability of estimations of working memory capacity has not been thoroughly examined. The present study examined the test-retest reliability for working memory capacity as estimated in a lateralized change detection task, which is frequently used in studies involving electroencephalography. Th...

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Autores principales: Dai, Mengnuo, Li, Yanju, Gan, Shuoqiu, Du, Feng
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6362280/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30718809
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-39044-1
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description The reliability of estimations of working memory capacity has not been thoroughly examined. The present study examined the test-retest reliability for working memory capacity as estimated in a lateralized change detection task, which is frequently used in studies involving electroencephalography. The test-retest correlations between K values for each set size in the two tests varied from 0.502 to 0.757, with test-retest correlations rising as set size increased. The results indicate that individual visual working memory capacity can be reliably estimated in a change detection task. Furthermore, test-retest reliability was higher when the two tests occurred at the same time of day than at different times of day.
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spelling pubmed-63622802019-02-07 The reliability of estimating visual working memory capacity Dai, Mengnuo Li, Yanju Gan, Shuoqiu Du, Feng Sci Rep Article The reliability of estimations of working memory capacity has not been thoroughly examined. The present study examined the test-retest reliability for working memory capacity as estimated in a lateralized change detection task, which is frequently used in studies involving electroencephalography. The test-retest correlations between K values for each set size in the two tests varied from 0.502 to 0.757, with test-retest correlations rising as set size increased. The results indicate that individual visual working memory capacity can be reliably estimated in a change detection task. Furthermore, test-retest reliability was higher when the two tests occurred at the same time of day than at different times of day. Nature Publishing Group UK 2019-02-04 /pmc/articles/PMC6362280/ /pubmed/30718809 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-39044-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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