An N-Back Task Using Vibrotactile Stimulation with Comparison to an Auditory Analogue

Comments

Comment viewing options

Select your preferred way to display the comments and click "Save settings" to activate your changes.

This paper is a follow-up

This paper is a follow-up from our 2006 Klatzky et al. JEP- Applied paper. It definitively demonstrates that use of the Vibrotactile N-back method, first described in the 2006 article, is a valid technique to test working memory capacity. Results show that the Vibrotactile and auditory variants of the N-back task yield similar results across several levels of N, findings which open the door for this technique in future studies assessing cognitive load demands on working memory capacity (particularly for multimodal investigations).