Declarative strategies persist under increased cognitive load.

ABSTRACT: When humans simultaneously execute multiple tasks, performance on individual tasks suffers. Complementing existing theories, this article poses a novel question to investigate interactions between memory systems supporting multi-tasking performance: When a primary and dual task both recruit declarative learning and memory systems, does simultaneous performance of both tasks impair primary task performance because learning in the declarative system is reduced, or because control of the primary task is passed to slower procedural systems? To address this question, participants were trained on either a perceptual categorization task believed to rely on procedural learning or one of three different categorization tasks believed to rely on declarative learning. Task performance was examined wit

SUBMITTER: Crossley MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4707129 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature