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Working memory capacity affects the interference control of distractors at auditory gating
Title: | Working memory capacity affects the interference control of distractors at auditory gating |
Authors: | Tsuchida, Yukio Browse this author | Katayama, Jun'ichi Browse this author | Murohashi, Harumitsu Browse this author |
Keywords: | working memory capacity | auditory gating | interference control | inhibition | attention | event-related brain potentials(ERPs) |
Issue Date: | 10-May-2012 |
Publisher: | ELSEVIER |
Journal Title: | Neuroscience Letters |
Volume: | 516 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page: | 62 |
End Page: | 66 |
Publisher DOI: | 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.03.057 |
PMID: | 22484011 |
Abstract: | It is important to understand the role of individual differences in working memory capacity(WMC). We investigated the relation between differences in WMC and N1 in event-related brain potentials as a measure of early selective attention for an auditory distractor in three-stimulus oddball tasks that required minimum memory. A high-WMC group (n = 13) showed a smaller N1 in response to a distractor and target than did a low-WMC group (n = 13) in the novel condition with high distraction. However, in the simple condition with low distraction, there was no difference in N1 between the groups. For all participants (n = 52), the correlation between the scores for WMC and N1 peak amplitude was strong for distractors in the novel condition, whereas there was no relation in the simple condition. These results suggest that WMC can predict the interference control for a salient distractor at auditory gating even during a selective attention task. |
Type: | article (author version) |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2115/49112 |
Appears in Collections: | 教育学院・教育学研究院 (Graduate School of Education / Faculty of Education) > 雑誌発表論文等 (Peer-reviewed Journal Articles, etc)
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Submitter: 室橋 春光
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