Dynamic, continuous multitasking training leads to task-specific improvements but does not transfer across action selection tasks.

ABSTRACT: The ability to perform multiple tasks concurrently is an ever-increasing requirement in our information-rich world. Despite this, multitasking typically compromises performance due to the processing limitations associated with cognitive control and decision-making. While intensive dual-task training is known to improve multitasking performance, only limited evidence suggests that training-related performance benefits can transfer to untrained tasks that share overlapping processes. In the real world, however, coordinating and selecting several responses within close temporal proximity will often occur in high-interference environments. Over the last decade, there have been notable reports that training on video action games that require dynamic multitasking in a demanding environment can l

SUBMITTER: Bender AD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6220332 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature