Learning to control actions: transfer effects following a procedural cognitive control computerized training.

ABSTRACT: Few studies have addressed action control training. In the current study, participants were trained over 19 days in an adaptive training task that demanded constant switching, maintenance and updating of novel action rules. Participants completed an executive functions battery before and after training that estimated processing speed, working memory updating, set-shifting, response inhibition and fluid intelligence. Participants in the training group showed greater improvement than a no-contact control group in processing speed, indicated by reduced reaction times in speeded classification tasks. No other systematic group differences were found across the different pre-post measurements. Ex-Gaussian fitting of the reaction-time distribution revealed that the reaction time reduction observe

SUBMITTER: Shahar N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4370731 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature