There’s nothing really written for the layman online (which I know of). You can start by googling for topics like ‘latent inhibition’ and research on meditation.
EDIT: in the future, Google will be deleting Groups’ Files. You will want to search around for where the collection has moved to; I keep local copies of the most important ones in my wiki, and I copied all files c. October 2010 to my Dropbox account.
Do you have a link to some well-written material on the subject? You’ve piqued my curiosity.
There’s nothing really written for the layman online (which I know of). You can start by googling for topics like ‘latent inhibition’ and research on meditation.
Genuine research papers-wise, you could join http://groups.google.com/group/brain-training to which group’s files I have uploaded ~20 papers on various topics related to working memory and focus.
Important ones:
klingberg2004-workingmemory-increase-helps-adhd.pdf
mcvay2009-workingmemory-improves-focus.pdf
thorell2008-workingmemory-improves-attention.pdf
unsworthengle2008-wm-executive-focus.pdf
jaeggi2008-nback-increases-iq.pdf
EDIT: in the future, Google will be deleting Groups’ Files. You will want to search around for where the collection has moved to; I keep local copies of the most important ones in my wiki, and I copied all files c. October 2010 to my Dropbox account.
In lieu of anything better, you can try my DNB FAQ which discusses the general subject: http://www.gwern.net/N-back%20FAQ