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Cognitive Workload in an Auditory Digit Span Task When Memory Span Is in the Neighborhood of Seven Items

Published Online:June 08, 2021https://doi.org/10.1027/0269-8803/a000282

Abstract

Abstract. Task performance of digit span has been widely used in the research on human short-term memory. The present study was conducted to show that the dynamic change of underlying mental effort can be further estimated by measuring the strength of theta oscillations at a forehead site on the scalp. Fourteen healthy adults (Mage = 26.1 years) performed a passive listening (PL) task and an auditory digit span (DS) task, and electroencephalography (EEG) data were recorded simultaneously during the two tasks. Considering that the digit span paradigm has often been conducted in a non-laboratory location, the EEG data were collected with a wireless single-channel headset system. The headset system was validated in this study by replicating the EEG (an enhancement of frontal theta power) as well as event-related potential (N200 and P300) responses to the deviant tone stimuli in the PL task. The outcomes of the DS task showed that the memory span of the participants was at least eight items. Moreover, frontal theta power in response to a list of six to eight digits increased significantly. This pattern of results supports a hypothesis that additional mental effort is required for short-term retention of verbal items when the number of stimulus items exceeds the newly proposed limit of short-term memory capacity. Some strengths and limitations of the current EEG headset system are also discussed.

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