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Cognitive Control

Basic Characteristics

• Description

Definitions of Cognitive control are disputed. The term ‘cognitive control’ has been used to describe a single finite capacity ‘executive’ system. Duncan and Owen suggest cognitive control involves a mechanism of ‘top-down’ control, while Miller and Cohen suggest cognitive control is the ‘maintenance of an internal representation of a stimulus’.

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• CNP Level

External Resources

• Links out:
  • Google: Digit Span
  • Wikipedia: Digit Span
  • PubBrain: Digit Span
  • PubMed: Digit Span
  • -ucla cognitive atlas- (coming soon!)

• Database links
  • Phenowiki Papers For Digit Span

Task Details

• Task Structure (please given an overview of the task procedures here [i.e., overall design, block, trial, and within-trial event structure and timing])
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    • block
      • trial
• Stimulus Characteristics
  • sensory modality (e.g., visual, auditory, somatosensory, gustatory, olfactory):
  • functional modality (e.g., linguistic, spatial, numerical, categorical):
  • presentation modality (e.g., human examiner, paper, computer display, headphones, speaker):
• Response Characteristics
  • response required -
    • effector modality (e.g., vocal, manual, pedal):
    • functional modality (e.g., words, drawing, writing, keypress, movement):
  • response options (e.g., yes/no, go/no-go, forced choice, multiple choice [specify n of options], free response)-
  • response collection (e.g., examiner notes, keyboard, keypad, mouse, voice key, button press)-