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keep-track task
A task in which subjects are first shown a set of categories to keep track of for a particular trial (e.g., animals, colors, and countries). They are then presented with words (including words from each category), and must remember the last word that was presented from each of the categories and recall those words at the end of the trial.

Definition contributed by RPoldrack about one year ago.

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Task records: 3  

cognitive load
  • accuracy of subject minus average accuracy of controls
 

updating
  • accuracy of subject minus average accuracy of controls
 

working memory
  • accuracy of subject minus average accuracy of controls
 


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The unity and diversity of executive functions and their contributions to complex
Miyake A, Friedman NP, Emerson MJ, Witzki AH, Howerter A, Wager TD
Cognitive psychology (Cogn Psychol)
2000 Aug
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Not all executive functions are related to intelligence.
Friedman NP, Miyake A, Corley RP, Young SE, Defries JC, Hewitt JK
Psychological science (Psychol Sci)
2006 Feb
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Chronic ecstasy (MDMA) use is associated with deficits in task-switching but not inhibition or memory updating executive functions.
Dafters RI
Drug and alcohol dependence (Drug Alcohol Depend)
2006 Jun 28
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Executive functions and achievements in school: Shifting, updating, inhibition, and working memory.
St Clair-Thompson HL, Gathercole SE
Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) (Q J Exp Psychol (Colchester))
2006 Apr
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