Results revealed that response learners showed significantly higher working memory capacity, more efficient attention disengagement and better cognitive control. Fifty participants completed the 4/8 virtual maze to assess navigational strategy, the forward and backward visual digit span and the Attention Network Test - Revised to assess both attention disengagement and cognitive control. This study therefore aimed to investigate whether response learners would display better performance on tests of executive and attention functioning compared to spatial learners. The caudate nucleus is involved in executive functions such as working memory, cognitive control and certain aspects of attention such as attentional disengaging.
Spontaneous use of the response strategy is associated with greater activity and grey matter within the caudate nucleus while the spatial strategy is associated with greater activity and grey matter in the hippocampus. At a lower level of the vertical continuum, expressing the degree of controlled activity involved, there are passive memory tasks, or simple span tasks. A research study conducted by Doman in 2002 used exercises to help school children in Louisiana to increase their digit span. If you make a mistake, then the next sequence will be one number shorter. If you correctly recall all of the numbers, then the next sequence will be one number longer. When you hear a beep, click on the numbers you just saw, in order. Hippocampus-dependent spatial strategy consists of creating a cognitive map of an environment and caudate nucleus-dependent response strategy consists of memorizing a rigid sequence of turns. Digit Span tests your ability to remember a sequence of numbers that appear on the screen, one at a time. One of two memory systems can be used to navigate in a new environment. At recall, the processing activity of a working memory span task (e.g., the sentence read for. Increased flanker task and forward digit span performance in caudate-nucleus-dependent response strategies. perimentally imposed (though this is not always the case).