Table 3.

Reaction times and accuracy for the n-back task

Performance on the n-back task [mean (SD)]
Zero-backOne-backTwo-backThree-back
Reaction time (ms)
    PBI486.05 (77.47)603.19 (146.35)697.23 (163.05)731.18 (162.2)
    VPT-N518.72 (118.69)601.79 (148.05)690.44 (207.92)750.22 (194.62)
    Controls508.35 (64.82)574.34 (86.05)648.68 (119.96)723.19 (156.64)
Correct hits (%)
    PBI100 (0)96.67 (6.35)84.44 (21.45)69.44 (17.61)
    VPT-N100 (0)98.94 (3.34)93.12 (12.41)73.02 (24.49)
    Controls99.52 (3.28)97.83 (5.55)93 (12.47)78.99 (12.66)
  • Notice the increase in reaction times and the decrease in accuracy for each group as task difficulty increases.