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episodic flanker task  

Definition

  • “The episodic flanker task is intended to capture people’s ability to focus attention on an item in memory that is embedded in a larger structure, like a word in a sentence or a digit in a memory list.” (Logan et al., 2021, p. 401).

Entry terms

  • episodic flanker paradigm

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • Eriksen, B. A., & Eriksen, C. W. (1974). Effects of noise letters upon the identification of a target letter in a nonsearch task. Perception & Psychophysics, 16(1), 143–149. https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03203267

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: open]

  • • Logan, G. D., Cox, G. E., Annis, J., & Lindsey, D. R. B. (2021). The episodic flanker effect: Memory retrieval as attention turned inward. Psychological Review, 128(3), 397–445. https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000272

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: open]

Creator

  • Frank Arnould

Dataset citation(s)

  • • Logan, G. D., Cox, G. E., Annis, J., & Lindsey, D. R. B. (2021, September 11). episodic flanker effect. https://osf.io/fzhq6/

Editorial note

  • The task is an adaptation of the Eriksen flanker task (Eriksen & Ericksen, 1974).

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/P66-TX0CF8LB-S

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